356 ONT RAISING GRA5S SEEDS AND FORMING MEADOWS. 



had an opportunity of observing more attentively the several 

 qualities, and must beg leave to observe, that the opinion 

 formed by Mr. Curtis and others of the two species of poa 

 have been proved to be erroneous in several respects; and 

 which it will be highly proper hereafter to notice, as I have 

 found, after numerous experiments, that neither'of them is 

 likely ever to be brought into general cultivation, for seve- 

 ral reasons which I have fully ascertained from facts. If 

 the mode I have practised of managing the fescue, foxtail, 

 and other grasses, whether with the view of producing 

 seed, or the best mode of using them in forming pasture and 

 meadow-land, be deserving the notice of the Society, I shall 

 be happy at a future period to send it to you. 

 Meadows of I beg leave to mention, that there are several meadows at 



r C 5 e eedii qUali " Roehampton ' the P ro P crt X of the late Benjamin Gold- 

 fqrmed. smid Esq., which have been made at different times under 



my management with the grass seed I had previously raised, 

 and which will challenge any other grass land in similar situa- 

 tions in the kingdom. The turf and pasturage of them were. 

 1 formed hi less time by far than is to be done by the usual 

 modes practised. 



I am, most respectfully, Sir, 

 Your very humble servant, 



WILLIAM SALISBURY. 



Certificates were received, dated March 5, 1809, from 

 William Underell, Richard Hook, and Thomas Hook, 

 stating, that in the year 1808 there was grown upon Lee- 

 place farm, near Godstone, in Surry, in the occupation of 

 Mr. Pennington, one hundred and sixty-five bushels of mea- 

 dow fescue grass seed, which was produced from about 

 twelve acres of land, and that it was free from mixture of 

 other grasses or weeds, and that they assisted in harvesting 

 and threshing the whole. 



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