vend PREFACE. 
as a mixture, for each soil: ‘Then, if I 
did not choose to try my experiments 
on a large scale, I would break up a 
perch or more on the different soils, 
and sow those grasses which appeared 
to me when in flower most productive 
and beneficial for constituting a good 
meadow. By these experiments I would 
be enabled to judge of their future 
utility; and the result would deter- 
mine whether it would be advisable 
to break up the remainder of the 
different soils, and pursue the same 
methods. 
The agricultural advantages likely 
to result from the establishment of a 
Botanical garden, were wisely foreseen 
by the Dublin Society. These advan- 
tages we already experience; for it has 
been the cause of displaying a variety 
of grasses, which heretofore were un- 
noticed, or perhaps unknown, in this 
country. livery year since it was first 
instituted, additional discoveries haye 
: been 
