PERRENNIAL RYE GRASS. 31 



It is mentioned in '^Worlidge's Husbandry," 1677, 

 as being cultivated at that early period, since which 

 time there have been numerous improvements on the 

 'Common sort, of which those best known are Eussell's, 

 Pacey' s, Whitworth' s, Stickney' s and Ruck' s, which 

 are all considered perrennial. 



It is found to flourish on most kinds of soil, and 

 grows under circumstances of different management 

 on many upland situations, though sound and some- 

 what moist midlands are the most appropriate. It 

 soon arrives at perfection and produces in its first 

 year of growth a good supply of early herbage which 

 is much liked by cattle. It produces an abundance 

 of seed which is easily collected. Perhaps there is no 

 other grass so widely known, and in years past, so 

 extensively cultivated as Pye grass has been, 

 throughout the United Kingdom. At present it is 

 supplanted to a great extent by the cultivation of 

 timothy, which seems as in this country to have be- 

 •come an universal favorite. Like timothy, the Pye 

 igrass is an impoverisher of the soil, and requires 

 annual top dressing, else in a few years the land be- 

 comes exhausted and the grass dies out. The anyl- 

 sis of this grass will favorably compare with 

 the best of the cultivated grasses, and should be a 

 strong recommendation in favor of its cultivation on 

 a more extended scale than has yet been given it in 

 America. It is superior to timothy, as a mixture for 

 permanent meadow or pasturage. 



Perrennial Pye grass was cultivated by Pobt. 

 Barnard, at ISormanstone, near Georgetown, D. C, 

 in the year 1823, and succeeded very well. "Puck's" 

 Perrennial Pye Grass, as it was called, was imported 

 and grown by agriculturists in the neighborhood of 



