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think not, and that the beft pafture for fheep 

 is alfo the beft for deer. However this wants 

 trial. I remarked on Malvern hill fomething 

 particular in relation to this grafs. A walk that 

 was made there for the convenience of the water 

 drinkers, in lefs than i year was covered in 

 many places with it, the' i could not find ont 

 fingle plant of it befides in any part of the hill. 

 This was no doubt, owing to the frequent 

 treading, which above all things makes this 

 grafs florifh, and therefore it is evident that 

 rolling muft be very ferviceable to it. 



ADDITION. B has been ohje^led that this 

 grafs is not free from bents ^ by which word is meant 

 the flowering fiems, I anfwer that this is moft 

 certainly true^ and that there is no grafs without 

 them. But the fiowers and fiems do not grow fa 

 foon brown as thofe of other graffes^ and being 

 muchfhorter they do not cover the radical leaves fo 

 muchy and therefore this grafs affords a more agree- 

 able turf without mowing than any other whatever 



that i know of. 



Sheeps FESCUE. Tab. 8. 



This is the grafs fo much eileemcd in Swe- 

 den for fheep. 



Gmelin, Flor. Sibir. fays that the Tartars 

 choofe to fix during the fummer in thofe place? 

 where there is the greateft plenty of this grafs \ 



becaufc 



