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season, the whole, or a part of the following plants will be 

 found in the turf. , 



Spring and Summer Produce. 



Meadow fox- tail, round cock's-foot, meadow fescue, mea- 

 dow cat's-tail, sweet-scented vernal, tall oat-like soft grass, 

 creeping vetch, ray-grass, field brome grass, annual meadow- 

 grass, and meadow oat-grass. 



Summer and Autumn Pasturage. 



Yellow oat-grass, meadow barley, crested dog's-tail, hard 

 fescue, rough-stalked meadow grass, smooth-stalked ditto, 

 woolly soft grass, cow clover, Dutch clover, yellow vetch, 

 and smooth fescue. 



Autumn Pasturas^e. 



Creeping bent or florin, marsh bent grass, and creeping- 

 couch grass. 



Besides these, there are other plants invariably found in 

 the richest natural pastures, as ranunculus acris (butter 

 cups), achillea millefolium (milfoil, or yarrow), plantago lan~ 

 ceolata (rib grass, or ribwort plantain), and rumex acetosa 

 (sorrel-dock). But of these, the rib-grass and butter-cups 

 were by far the most common, the yarrow and sorrel-dock 

 being confined to particular spots. I have been, says the 

 author, in the practice for many years of examining these 

 pastures at various periods of the season, but I never noticed 

 any indication of the cattle (horses, cows, and sheep) having 

 touched the butter-cups or the sorrel. 



We have already given a general list of the grasses, and a 

 few other pasture plants ; we now come to the details of the 

 author's experiments for ascertaining their comparative value, 

 as shown by his chemical tests, together with the conclu- 

 sions he has come to, as to their real worth to the farmer 



and grazier. 



