C ii8 J 

 ESSAY 



ON SOME 



PERENNIAL GRASSESj 



with the most approved method of their 



cultivation, and various references 



to their proper soil: 



By peter DELABIGARRE, Es^ 



HON OMNIS PERT OMNIA TELLUS. yiRG. 



AMONGST a great number of grafles ufed for artificial 

 paflures, I thought it my duty to feleQ: thofe which I prefume 

 the moft fuitable to this State, and mofl friendly to cattle, 

 as far as I am able to judge, from my experience of the 

 country- 



LUCERNE, I ESPARCET, ) CLOVER, 



SAINFOIN, j PIMPERNEL, j VETCHES. 



This Eflay will be extend^ only to four of the perennial, 

 confidering the three others as annual, and lefs ufeful, which 

 therefore require a feparate treatife. 



LUC E R N E. 



It is not true that lucerne can grow every where : it 

 requires a light, but fubftantial ground, not too dry nor too 

 wet: it delights in a deep and gravelly foil, or rich fand. 



