NATURAL HISTORY. 



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Fig. 56. Italian Rye Grass. 



Fig. 58. Many-flowered Darnel. 



or wild, and will endure any amount of forcing by irrigation or 

 otherwise, while it is said to stand a drought remarkably well. 

 The soils best adapted to it seem to be moist, fertile and tena- 

 cious, or of a medium consistency ; and on such soils it is said 

 to be one of the best grasses known to cut green for soiling, 

 affording repeated luxuriant and nutritive crops, I have not 

 seen enough of it to speak from personal observation or experi- 

 ence of the comparative profit of this grass and Timothy for 

 cultivation here, but its comparative nutritive value is well 



