68 BROAD LEAVED, OR CREEPING BENT. 



putting forth a great profusion of strings (lateral) 

 like the side shoots by which strawberries increases 

 und by which it is propagated. The roots penetrate 

 but a short distance into the soil, thus denoting that 

 its chief sustenance is drawn from the atmosphere and 

 it is represented, 1st, to grow luxuriantly in low and 

 swamp grounds which but for the cultivation of it 

 w^ould be of little or no value. 2nd, that it grows in 

 such great quantities in irrigated meadows which are 

 most favorable to it, that it has been known to produce 

 four times the weight of any single crop of any other 

 grass. 3rd, that cattle are so extremely fond or par- 

 tial to it as to prefer the " hay made from it to any 

 other hay whatever, and that from the length of time 

 which it annually vegetates, it may be used as green 

 food during the greater part of the Winter. 



The high value of a crop of Florin in Scotland 

 (at that time) was evidenced by the fact that the High- 

 land Agicultural- Society awarded two premiums of 

 twenty and ten guineas for the greatest product on 

 an acre, in certain Counties. 



James Baird, manager of Shotts, Iron works, Scot- 

 land, raised it with great success. His product was 

 from live to seven tons per acre. Sir James Stewart 

 cultivated it on a spongy mass, and obtained from 

 five to six tons on an English acre, cut the last of 

 September, put in small stacks and left in the mead 

 ow till wanted. 



Dr. Riciiardson cut on different pieces his eleventh, 

 twelfth, and thirteeth crops without any falling off 

 in quantity. 



To this day Fiorin or Faureen, is held in high 

 estimation by the farmers of the north of Ireland. 

 There are hundreds of Irishman in the states who 



