ON RAISING GRASS SEEDS AND FORMING MEADOWS. 359 



which I have succeeded at a small comparative expense and 

 trouble, and which is instanced in a meadow immediate!/ 

 fronting Brompton Crescent, the property of Angus Mac- 

 donald Esq.,. which land was very greatly encumbered 

 with noxious weeds of all kinds, but, by the following 

 plan, the grasses were encouraged to grow up to the exclu- 

 sion of all other plants, and, though it has been laid down 

 six years, the pasturage is now at least equal to any in the 

 county. 



Grass seeds maybe sown with equal advantage both in Method of lav- 

 spring and autumn ; the land above-mentioned was sown in f ng down laacl 



1 ° '■ in grass. 



the latter end of August, and the seed made use of was one 



bushel of meadow fescue, and one of meadow-foxtail grass, 

 with a mixture of fifteen pounds of white clover and trefoil ; 

 the land was previously cleaned as far as possible with the 

 plough and harrows, and the seeds sown and covered in the 

 usual way. In the month of October following, a prodi- 

 gious crop of annual weeds of many kinds had grown up, 

 were in bloom, and covered the ground and the sown grasses; 

 the whole was then mowed and carried off the land, and by 

 this management all the annual weeds were at once destroy- 

 ed, as they will not spring again if cut down when in bloom. 

 Thus while the stalks and roots of the annual weeds were 

 decaying, the sown grasses were getting strength during the 

 fine weather ; and what few perennial weeds were amongst 

 them were pulled up by hand in their young state. The 

 whole land was repeatedly rolled to prevent the worms and 

 frost from throwing the plants out of the ground ; and in 

 the following spring it was grazed till the latter end of March, 

 when it was left for hay, and has ever since continued a 

 good field of grass. 



The meadows at Roehampton, belonging to the late B. Grass seeds 



Goldsmid, Esq., were laid down with two bushels of meadow so * n m th * 



7 * 7 spring, 



fescue-grass, and fifteen pounds of mixed clover, and sown 



in the spring along with one peck and a half of barley, in- 

 tended a^ a shade to the young grasses ; the crop was thus 

 suffered to grow till the latter end of June, and then the 

 corn, With the weeds, were mowed and carried off the land j 

 the ground was then rolled, and at the end of July the 



grasses 



