FRANCE. 12$ 



of fo much importance, that every man is 

 defirous of having fome, and the quantity 

 fown is very great. The importance of 

 thefe artificial grafTes is very great in a 

 country where there is not one good upland 

 pafture to be found. The only natural 

 grafs to be feen in all France are low mea- 

 dows upon the rivers, or (heep-walks burnt 

 up with the fun ; fo that grafles like lucerne 

 and fainfoine, and clover, which will better 

 bear the heat of the climate, are of much 

 more confequence than in England, where 

 there is fuch plenty of good meadows and 

 pafture. 



Their management of lucerne is, to fork 

 up all weeds as fafl as they arife, which, in 

 this warm climate, are not many, and once 

 in four years they manure it with a compoft 

 of earth, mixed with long dung. It is ne- 

 ver grazed, and they think the fcythe hurts 

 it lefs. The account of one field at Condc 

 was given me by a peafant, upon whom I 

 thought I could depend. 



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