PREFACE. 
‘THE natural grasses produced in each 
country, and particularly in Ireland, 
whose mild, open, moist climate, and 
whose soil is by nature congenial to 
their growth, make no small class of 
its most beneficial although in gene- 
ral most neglected herbage. 
When we consider that the produce 
of milk, butter, beef, mutton, tallow, 
leather, wool, &c. &c. depends in a 
great measure upon the proper culti- 
vation of ‘the indigenous grasses, any 
attempt to render them better known, 
and to improve that cultivation, can- 
not be uninteresting to the agricultu- 
vist; for however ‘useful those grasses 
which are called artificial may be, 
they 
