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YARROW (Achillea Millefolium) is highly recommended 

 by Dr. Anderson, as being one of the most valuable plants 

 growing in Greatbritain. It thrives well on moist loams, 

 and on the driest soils, and will be found green when other 

 grasses are parched with drought. Every kind of cattle 

 are fond of it. The seeds are gathered in October. It 

 flowers in June and July. 



It is a mistake, however, to rank this plant among 

 grasses; and its superiority has never been discovered in 

 this Country. 



RIBGRASS (Plantago Lancolata) has been considerably 

 propagated HI Yorkshire (Greatbritain) where it is held in 

 estimation. It is best adapted to rich sands and loams, and 

 on poor sands it answers tolerably well for Sheep. It is 

 not liked by Horses, and is bad for hay, on account of its 

 retaining its sap. It is said, by Barron Haller, that the 

 richness of the milk, in the celebrated dairies of the Alps, 

 is owing to the Cows feeding on this plant and the lady's 

 xnantl^ (alchemilla vulgaris ) Its seed is plentiful. 



COCKSFOOT ( Dactylis Glomerata) is a coarse grass, and 

 grows with luxuriance It suits all kinds of soils, but those 

 which are very wet or very dry. It is recommended by 

 Mr Pacey, who says it affords an abundant crop; springs 

 early ; yields abundance of seed ; makes excelent hay ; and 

 is very permanent. It flowers in June. Where it grows 

 on rank soils, however, or in coarse patches, cattle will not 

 eat it 



BLUE DOGSTAIL-GRASS (Cynosurus Coerulius) is the 

 earliest of all the British grasses, and flowers a fortnight 

 sooner than any other. It is, however, not very productive ; 

 but may be useful in Sheep- pastures, in high rocky situa- 

 tions, where there is but little soil. 



Of Aquatic Plants, which are useful in Cultivation, are 

 the following : 



FLOTE-FOXTAIL (Alofiecurus Geniculatus) grows in mea- 

 dows on the Severn, where other good grasses are expeled 

 by reason of wetness and inundations. It is a good grass 

 for hay, and flowers in May and June. It is recommended 

 for newly- reclaimed morasses, and lands recovered from 

 the sea. 



FLOTE-FESCUE (Festuca Fluitans) will grow in still 

 weter grounds than {\\Gjtote-f ox tail; or, rather, may be said 

 to be amphibious, growing as well in the water as other- 

 wise. It flowers in June, and is a constituent part of the 

 celebrated Orcheston meadow, in Greatbritain. Horses and 

 Cows are very fond of it. It springs early, and promises to 

 be useful for the sanre purposes as the last-mentioned grass. 



