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25, ANTHOXANTHUM ODORATUM. 
Sweet Spring-Gra/s. 
This grafs, like the rough Cock’s-Foot, is always to 
be found in flower in paftures that are well ftocked, 
which leads me to conclude, it is not over-relifhed 
by cattle in general; and therefore not deferving the 
great charatter which fome authors have given of it, 
merely on account of its fragrance; which, perhaps, 
is the very reafon why brutes reject it; fince we fee 
that fweet-meats pall our appetites, inftead of afford- 
ing nourifhment. 
It alfo affects poor, fandy grounds; and i is found 
yery fparingly in our rich paftures about Laycock, 
Melktham, and Chippenham; but abundantly on the 
fandy foil of Spy-Park, Wraxall, and our poor land 
under the Sham-Caftle, and the two Starve-Alls. 
Yet it might do very well fown in the ratio of one- 
eighth. For though we cannot dine on fugar, yet 
it has its ufe. 
26. ARUNDO PHRAGMITES. 
Common Reed. 
Its economical ufe is for thatching, for which pur- 
pofe it is fuperior to any thing growing in England, 
being neater and more durable than any other 
thatching. And fince the improvement of the fens, 
by draining, it is become fo fcarce as to render thofe 
pieces of water, which produce it, of almoft equal 
yalue to the drained grounds, as it bears at this time 
a con. 
