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pratenfe album, which is commonly known by the 

 names of White Dutch Clover, or White tloney- 



fuckle Grafs. 



Eight pounds of this feed will be 



The Grafs-feed fliould 



enough for one acre of land. 

 . be fown firft, and then the Dutch Clover-feed may 

 be afterward fown \ but they fhould not be mixed 

 together, becaufe the Clover-leeds being theheavieft, 

 will fall to the bottom, and confequently the ground 

 vill be unequally fown with them. 

 After the feeds are fown, the ground fhould be 

 lightly harrowed to bury the feeds ; but this fhould be 

 performed with a fhort-toothed harrow, otherwife the 

 feeds will be buried too deep. Two or three days af- 

 ter fowing, if the furface of the ground is dry, it 

 ifhould be rolled with a Barley roller to break the clods 

 and fmooth the ground, which will fettle it, and pre- 

 vent the feeds from being removed by the wind. 

 When the feeds are come up, if the land fhould pro- 

 duce many weeds, thefe fhould be drawn out before 

 they grow fo tall as to overbear the Grafs ; for where 

 this has been negleded, the weeds have taken fuch 

 poffefFion of the ground, as to keep down the Grafs 

 and flarve it ; and when thefe weeds havie been fuf- 

 fered to remain until they have Ihed their feeds, the 

 land has been fb plentifully flocked with them^ as 

 'endrely to deftroy the Grafs ; therefore it is one of 

 the principal parts of hufbandry, never to fuffer weeds 

 to grow on the land. 



If the ground is rolled two or three times at proper 



diftances after the Grafs is up, it will prefs down the 



Grafs, and caufe it to make a thicker bottom ; for as 



the Dutch Clover will put exit roots from every joint 



. of the branches which are near the ground, fo by 



prefTing down the flalks, the roots will mat foclofely 



together, as to form a fward fo thick as to cover the 



. whole furface of the ground, and form a green car- 



', pet, which will better refifl the drought. For if we 



. ^do but examine the common Paflures in fummer (in 



'. ;inofl of which there are patches of this White Honey- 



iiuckle Grafs growing naturally) we fhall find thefe 



patches to be the only verdure remaining in the fields. 



And this the farmers in general acknowledge, is the 



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wherfe it is now much more valuable tlian day arable 



land. 



After the ground has been fown in the manner before 

 direfted, and brought to a good fward, the way to 

 preferve it good is, by conftantly rolling the ground 

 with a heavy roller, every fpring and autumn, as hath 

 been before direfted. This piece of hufbandry is 

 rarely praftifed by farmers, but thofe who do, find 

 their account in it,, for it is of great benefit to the 

 Grafs. Another thing fhould allo.be carefully per- 

 forated, which is, to cut up Docks, Dandelion, Knap- 

 weed, and all fuch bad weeds, by their roots, ^very 

 fpring and autumn ; this will increafe the quantity of 

 good Grafs, and preferve the Paflures in beauty. 

 Dreffing of thefe Paflures every third year, is alfo a 

 good piece of hufbandry, for otherwife it cannot be 

 expefted the ground fhould continue to produce good 

 crops. Befides this, it will be neceffary to change 

 thejeafons of mowine* and not to mow the fame 



. ground every year, but to mow one feafon, and feed 

 the next i for where the ground is every year mown, 

 it mufl be conftantly dreffed, as moft of the Grafs 

 grounds near London, otherwife the ground will be 

 foon exhaufled. 

 ' Of late years there has been an emulation, elpecially 

 ^mong gentlemen, to improve their Paflures, by fow- 

 ing feyeral forts of Grafs-feeds ; and there have been 

 fome perfons of little fkill in thefe matters, who have 

 impofed on many ignorant people, by felling them 

 feeds of fomc foreign Grafs, recommending them for 

 . fome particular quality, but when tried have proved 

 of little worth, whereby they have lofl a feafon or 

 two, and have had their work to begin again. There- 

 fore I would advife every perfon, not to trufl. too 

 much upon the faith of fuch praftitioners, who, upon 

 flight experiments, have ventured to recommend 

 without judgment ; for of all the forts of Grafs-feeds 

 which have been brought from America (of which I 

 have, at various times, fown more than a hundred 

 different fpecies) I have found none equal to the com* 

 mon Poa Grafs, which grows naturally in England, 

 either for duration or verdure •, therefore that, and 

 ifweeteft feed for all forts of cattle, yet never had any I about fix or (even other forts, are the befl worth cul- 



hotion of propagating it by feeds till of late years. 

 Nor has this been long praftifed in England ; for till 

 within a few years, that fome curious perfons imported 

 the feed from Brabant, where it had been Ion 2: cuiti- 

 vatedj there was not any of the feeds faved m Eng- 

 land 5 though now there are feveral perfons who fave 

 the feeds here, which fucceed full as well as any of 

 the foreign feeds which are imported. " j . t- V , vV^ 

 As this White Clover is an abiding plant, fo it is cer- 



tivatmg i but the trouble of coUefting thefe in quan- 

 tity is fo great, as to deter moll people from attempt- 



and in the purchafing of hay-feeds, there is 



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c; generally more feeds of weeds than Grafs, which will 

 ' fill the ground •, therefore for Ibme ytzYs paft, I have 

 ; recommended and fown dnly the White Dutch Clo-! 

 ;^ ver-feeds, and have waited for the nature} Grafs com- 

 ing up amongfl it, and have generally iuccceded better 

 ; this way than by fowing hay-feed with it; for^ if the 



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tainly the very bell fort to foy^ where Paflures ai"e laid ' Paflure is duly weeded, rolled, and dreffed, all bad 



. down to remain ; for as the hay-feeds which are taken 

 . from the befl Paflures, will be compofed of various 

 forts of Grafs, fome of which may be but annual and 

 others biennial, fo when thofe go off, there will be 

 many and large patches of ground left bare and naked, 

 if there is not a lufficient quantity of the White (Clover 

 to fpread over and cover the land. Therefore a good 

 fward can never be expefted where this is not fown ; 

 for in moft of the natural Paflures, we find this plant 

 makes no fmall fhare of the fward ; and it is equally 

 good for wet and dry land, growing naturally upon 

 gravel and clay uf moft parts of England f which is a 

 plain indication hoi^ eafily this plant may be cultivated 

 to great advantage, in moft forts of land throughout 



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this kingdom. 



Therefore the true caufe why the land which is in til- 

 lage is not brought to a good turf again, in the ufual 

 method of hufbandry is, from the farmers not diftin- 

 guifhing which GrafTes are annual, from thofe which 

 are perennial ; for if annual or biennial GrafTes are 

 fown, thefe will of courfe foon decay ; fo that unlefs 

 where fome of their feeds may have ripened and fallen, 

 nothing can be expefled on the land but what will 

 naturally come up.,- Therefore this, together with the 

 covetous method of laying down the ground with a 

 crop of Corn, has occafioned the general failure of 

 increafing the Pafture in * many parts of England, 



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; tained : whereas the Burnet, and rnany other plants, 

 which have been extolled as a good winter pabulum, 

 are of fhort duration, fo very improper for improving 

 land J nor are there two better plants yet known for 

 the purpofe of fodder^ than the Lucern and Saint- 

 ; foin J for where thefe are properly fown upon right 

 ; foils and duly cultivated, they will produce a much 



; greater quantity of foodj than can be procured from 

 fr the fame quantity of land, fown with any other abid- 

 ing plant : therefore I wifh thofe who are curious to 

 have much fodder for their cattle,*to apply, themfelves 

 ■;; to the culture of thefe, and not engage in uncertain 



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 dented in five parts at the top, t ' The flower has 

 TGundifh petals y waved and plaited on their borders^ 

 narro'uu at their bafe^ where they are infe 

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as long as the petals^ terminated by riftng fummits ; a)td 

 a roundifh germen fitting upon an awUfhaped ftyle^ crowned 

 by an acuminated fligma. Thegermen afterward becomes 

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