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} Four graffes which grow 
ira. przecox 
SHAR ; on barren ~ rocky 
Aira caryophyllea, grounds, and) produce 
Feftuca bromoides, | .verdure where better 
Poa rigida, a | grafles. _ would. not 
thrive. 
| A {mall grafs flowering 
Agroftis minima, ( : early in ithe feafon, on 
5 
barren clayey hills. 
) I thall fay nothing of its 
merit, not ino it 
Bromus arventfis, se ils having 
( for any length of time 
in cultivation. 
An attentive perufal of the above table will 
be fufficient to convince any refle@ing man of 
the futility of an opinion.which generally pre- 
vails in this country, namely, that there are 
but fix or eight grafles worthy of cultivation, 
and that all the reft are worfe than. ufelefs. 
For it will be feen that each grafs, however 
infignificant in appearance, may be of ufe in 
its proper place, that each fituation has its pe- 
culiar herbage, and that mountains, bogs and 
ditches, which would be totally barren if thofe 
grafles which are reputed ufelefs were eradi- 
cated, 
