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it may have a ftem too rigid, there muft be a confide r- 

 able quantity of nutriment in its long and full ear. 

 With refpeft to grades, there is one diftinftion, which 

 I do not recollect to have met with ; thofe, which are 

 cultivated for grazing, that is, merely for their leaves, 

 ought to be of the moft leafy kind; thofe for hay 

 ought, I think, to be of thofe kinds, which produce tall 

 Items and full ears j thefe partake more of the nature 

 of grain, and are confequently the moft nutritious: this 

 obfervation extends only to one or two years after the 

 ground is laid to grafs; after that period, the grafs na- 

 tural to the foil will extirpate all others. J. D. 



Phleum nodofum. A variety of the former, grows in 

 moift grounds, and is not fo rigid, and more leafy. 



Poa aquatica. Could it bear to be cultivated out of 

 water, it might be a valuable grafs. 



Poa pratenfts. This certainly poflefTes every quality 

 requifite for meadow and pafture ; it grows on a great 

 variety of foils, moift, dry, clay, loam, and fand, and ia 

 all is one of the beft graffes. >y 



Poa /rmW/'j-.-^-Perhaps only excelled by the former* 



dgroftis Jlolonifera Joint grafs of our farmers, is the 

 principal covering of our moid fields; in fome fitu- 

 ations we may reckon it one of our moft valuable 

 graffes, but when it gets into our arable grounds, ks 

 long creeping {hoots do confiderable damage. Of this 

 f jraik. I have given a drawing; it is one of the raoft 

 beautiful as well as the beft of our graffes, but when 



allowed 



