SOLON ROBINSON, 1845 495 



P. S. Since writing the above, I have read the article 

 in your March Number upon Bermuda grass. 1 The de- 

 scription given corresponds with the specimens now be- 

 fore me. Dr. Phillips (at whose house I now am) has 

 grass from Natchez and Cuba which are identical. But 

 instead of "spikes four and five," they are three, four 

 and five, and he thinks he has seen six. Dr. Phillips also 

 says that in a conversation which he has just had with 

 Dr. Naylor, of Warren county, he was assured by that 

 gentleman that he has cultivated land upon his place for 

 four years that was well set in Bermuda grass; and, 

 although he does not exterminate it, that it gives him no 

 serious difficulty in cultivation, and he thinks it is far 

 more dreaded than it should be. 



The Reviewers Reviewed. 



By Solon Robinson. 



[Chicago Prairie Farmer, 5:152-53; June, 1845] 



[May 2, 1845] 

 Messrs. Editors : A word with you. Firstly you see 

 I date from home again, where I arrived five days ago, 

 having performed a two thousand mile tour in the States 

 of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis- 

 sissippi, Louisiana and Arkansas; during which I have 

 had an opportunity to see many things that I expected 

 I might be able to interest your readers with a descrip- 

 tion of. But I am deterred from the effort, for fear that 

 I might happen to speak of some contemptible little dull 

 village through which I passed, as "not a very promising 

 one," and for which I should get as bad a "cat-hauling" 

 as I did in your April number for the half dozen lines 

 that I devoted to the notice of a certain village, 2 (I must 

 not call names any more, I suppose,) in a style of lan- 

 guage that would have provoked a laugh instead of the 

 angry ad captandum one that it has, if every word I said 



1 American Agriculturist, 4:90-91. 

 5 See ante, 424 n. 



