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would not thrive, it would be well worth culti- 
vation. -I have often heard it faid, that cattle do 
not eat this grafs when in a recent ftate; but this 
opinion feems to have originated from feeing it in 
tufts in meadows fome time after the cattle are 
taken off for the feafon. However, I can fay 
from experience, that cattle do eat it in a recent 
ftate, and that with avidity. ‘There are grounds 
adjoining the fouth and weft fides of the Botanic 
gardens, which are now, and have been under 
meadow before the formation of the Gardens. 
Thefe meadows abound with Dattylis glomerata: 
the aftergrafs is generally fet to dairymen, and I 
have frequently ftood a confiderable time to ob- 
ferve whether cattle refufed the Daétylis or not, 
but I never found that they had any. objection to 
it; and, in the courfe of time, the entire of the 
graffes being eaten to a level, isa clear demon- 
{tration that they do not refule it. The reafon of 
this grafs appearing in tufts is, when cattle eat 
the entire pafture or aftergrafs bare, they ar 
generally removed to another field; and as the 
Daétylis glomerata pofleffes the quickeft powers 
of vegetation of any other grafs, it very foon fur- 
mounts all the reft, and being of a ftrong luxu- 
riant nature appears in tufts, which occafions 
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