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way. The most important of these is the grass-meadow, and this 

 is also the main object of cultivation. The growing of corn is of 

 minor importance, and may be regarded rather as a prehminary 

 stage in laying down the land to grass. The potatoe and turnip 

 crops, however, are of some importance. 



The grass-meadow, or to use its local name the Bo, will be 

 considered first, as it is the formation of the cultivated area, which 



FifJ. 192. Bo on Kolter with a wealth of flowers; the ditches dividing the narrow field-ridgcs can be 

 faintly seeii in the distance. (From photo. l)y I". Biirsesen). 



most approximates to a natural formation, especially the grass-slope 

 and the grass-moor. 



a. The Bft formation (Grass-meadow). 



The piants of the Bo form a dense, light-green carpet, with 

 numerous flowering herbs (yellow Raniinciili, white Bellis, etc.) re- 

 Heving the green of the grasses. The surface of the Bo is seldom 

 flat, but is generally more or less undulating, and intersected by 

 numerous drainage channels of the kind described above. The ap- 

 pearance before mowing is very variegated and attractive, numerous 

 flow^ers bestowing a character very distinct from that of an ordi- 

 nary meadow, and recalling the upland meadows and pastures 

 around a Norwegian »sæter« or the Swiss »Alpen«. 



The dominant grasses of the Bo formation are five in nuniber: 



