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Qbfervations on GRASSES. 



AS the foregoing treatife contains foine ob- 

 fervations on grafles \ that are quite new, 

 and as this affair is of the utmoft importance to 

 the hufbandman, i fhall fubjoyn fome obferva- 

 tions of my own relating to the fame fubje6t. 



It is wonderfull to fee how long mankind has 

 negleded to make a proper advantage of plants 

 of fuch importanee, and which in almofl every 

 countrey are the chief food of cattle. The far- 

 mer for want of diilinguifhing, and fele6ting 

 grafles for feed, fills his paflures either with 

 weeds, or bad, or improper graffes -, when by 

 making a right choice, after fome trials he might 

 be fure of the bed grafs, and in the greateil 

 abundance that his land admits of. At prefent 

 if a farmer wants to lay down his land to grafs, 



* By grajfcs arc meant all thofc plant s^ <vchich ha^e a round, 

 joiyitcd and hollonjj Jlem, furroutidcd at each joint <v:ith aJtJigle 

 leafy long, narrotv and point ed^ and nvhofe feeds are contained in 



chaffy hiifks. It appears by this dcfnitiony ivhich is Rafs^ that 

 all the kinds of grain^ as n,vhcat, oats, barley, i^c. are properly 

 grajfes, and that the broad, the ^zvhite, the hop, l^c. clo-vers arg 

 not grajfcs, though fo frsjus^tly called by that name. 



