Review of M)\ Curlls's Pamphlet on Grafts., 217 



ferioufly that many of the ufeful hhits 'm Anderson's Efuys 

 on agriculture and rural ajfairs are rendered abortive from his 

 want of botanical information. lie thinks it extraordinary, that 

 out of more than an hundred grafles, ftriaiy fpeaking, growing 

 in Britain, rye-grafs, however inadequate for the purpofe, is 

 ftill the principal one employed in laying down lands.. Out 

 of this variety Mr. C. has feleded fix, which he is confident 

 will do all that their natural graffes can do ; they arc chofeu 

 from among thofe that conftitute their bell paftures ; mofb 

 of them being early, all of them produdive, and adapted to 

 luch loils and fituations as are proper for meadows and 

 paflures. 



After cautioning his readers not to expeft wonders, he g-ives 

 a concife account of each of the fix graffes with a copper-plate 

 ann-exed. They are the following : i. Sweet-fcented-vernal- 

 grafs, (anthoxanthum odoratum.) 2. Meadow-fox-tail-grafs 

 (alopecurus pratenfis.) 3. Smooth-ftalk-meadow-grafs (poa 

 pratenfis.) 4, Rough-ftalked-meadow-grafs (poa trivialis.) 5. 

 Meadow-fefcue-grafs, (feftuca pratenfis.) 6. Crefled-dog's- 

 tail-grafs, (cynofurus crluatus.) The order of their iiowerincr 

 is the fame with that of their prefent enumeration. And he 

 obferves, that the meadow-fox-tail and rcugh-ftalked-meadow- 

 grafs are fittefl for moift lands j the meadow-fefcue and fweet- 

 fcented-vernal, for land either moift or moderately dry ; and 

 the fmooth-ftalked-meadow-grafs and crefled-dog's-tail, for 

 dry pafi:ure. 



The culture of thefe graffes being particularly recommended 



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