OBSERVATIONS ON GRASSES. 3S9 



by converting fome rich fpot near the houfc, 

 that has conftantly been manured, and of courfe 

 is full of grafles fitter for the dairy or the liable 

 than for deer, which hardly ever is the cafe of 



large parks. No man will, i fuppofe, pretend 

 to make good pork from a hog fed with 

 grains inflead of peas, tho' he has the liberty of 

 choofmg as much ground as he pleafes, and 

 where he pleafes. 



This grafs is called in many counties rye grais. 

 It were to be wifhed that the old name might 

 prevail, becaufe there is a genus of grafs, viz. the 

 2 2d. known by the name of rye all over the 

 kingdom, of which genus there is a fpecies that 

 ought to bear the fame generical name. 



ADDITION. I have fmce eaUn venifon otit 

 of a large park^ where there was much of this 

 grafs^ and it was no better than that out of the 

 paddock. I jhould he apt to think from hence that 

 this grafs would not be proper for fheep^ as i have 

 always ohferved that the fame kind of ground which 

 yeilds good venifon yields alfo good mutton. For 

 what particular ufes it is gcod^ wants to he tryedy 

 whether for the dairy^ for fatting cattle., or for 

 horfes. Many are tempted by the facility of pre 

 curing the feed of this grafs to lay down grounds 

 near their houfeSy where they want to have a fine 



turf 



