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Eed Top 4 



Fowl Meadow 6 



Floating Glyceria 4 



Reed Canary Grass 2 



Rough Stalked Meadow f^ 



Timothy 5 



White Clover 4 



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The foregoing mixtures will serve as a basis, in 

 n connection with the study of the character, &c., of 

 the grasses, for the making up of any desired mixture 

 Avhich a farmer may require. 



The advantages derived from sowing a number of 

 species of grasses, compared with sowing only one 

 or two in mixture, is so self evident from reasons al- 

 ready given, that it should be supposed few farmers 

 could be found to advocate the latter practice. But 

 unfortunately for the advancement of grass culture, 

 there are tho^a and their name is legion who 

 still maintain the sufficiency of one or two species. 



At the present time in England, half of the arable 

 land in the Kingdom is supposed to be under mead- 

 ow and pasturage. The greater part of this land is 

 rented to farmers at extravagant prices. 



iSTotwithstanding which their system of Grass cul- 

 ture embraces the circle of the useful grasses, from 

 the towering Timothy to the modest little Poa An- 

 nua all (nearly) alike receive the fostering care of 

 the husbandman, who is well repaid by this imita. 

 tion of nature in the speedy formation of a thick and 

 beautiful sward, producing a sweet and varied her- 

 bage grateful to the tastes of his animals, permanent 



