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Section III. Of llie grasses, and other plants, whicli are 

 natural to dry, sandy, and elevated soils ; of 

 some other plants not belonging to the natural 

 family of grasses, but which are found in dry or 

 upland pastures ; of the improvement of downs 

 and of light sandy soils ; a combination of seve- 

 ral different grasses and other plants recom- 

 mended for improving the pasture on soils of 

 the nature now mentioned _ - _ 256 — 339 



IV. Of the grasses which naturally grow in moist 

 soils, or in bogs, lands that are periodically over- 

 flown, and irrigated meadows ; of the difference 

 of quality in water-meadow hay, and in hay made 

 from rich old pasture land ; of the effects of an 

 excess of manure to grasses, as regards the nutri- 

 tive powers of the herbage produced under such 

 circumstances _ _ . _ 340 — 386 



V. Of the different grasses, and other plants, 

 adapted for the alternate husbandry ; impo- 

 verishing effects of plants to soils ; of the causes 

 which render some plants unfit to succeed other 

 plants in alternate cropping - _ _ 387 — 414 



Appendix I. Of the general impoverishing effects of plants 

 to soils ; of tbe mode of converting tillage land 

 to permanent pasture, by the process called trans- 

 planting turf; summary of the grasses adapted 

 for the alternate husbandry - _ _ 415 — 422 



II. Of the grasses which afford the best culms for 

 the manufacture of straw bonnets, in imitation 

 of the celebrated Leghorn manufacture - 422—428 



Index -._-... 429 — 438 



