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Id winter its powers of vegetation are very great ; on the 

 I St. cf December, a little boy of mine stole the whole crop 

 from my irrigated plot for his rabbits, yet by the first of 

 March the plot had recovered a fleece ; I know not any 

 other grass that could have made such an effort. 



However desirable so rich a green food might be deemed 

 in that ungenial season, the places where the Festuca jiuitans 

 is found, are generally so flooded in winter, as to make its 

 crop inaccessible, and were we to transfer it to our irrigated 

 grounds, from Avhich we can occasionally let off the water, 

 we shall find few of them able to afford a sufficient supply in 

 summer to this most decided aquatic. 



From these difficulties I have given up the cultivation of 

 this excellent grass ; I state its good qualities, hoping that 

 others may exert their ingenuity with more success. 



XIL Festuca ovina. 



I cannot avoid saying something of this grass of late come 

 into fashion in England, but which has not, to my know- 

 ledge, been yet cultivated in Ireland. 



I tried the Festuca ovina for two jears, but in the third, 

 though I assisted it by weeding, yet it tost possession of its 

 plot. 



The panicles of this grass are few and low, neither these 

 nor the sward ever rising so high as to catch the scythe, of 

 course the Festuca ovina can only be used in pasture, and then 



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