418 HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS. 



If the natural turf is deficient in any particular species of valu- 

 able grasses, the seeds of those should be sown at the proper 

 season after the top-dressing is spread; after this the surface 

 should be repeatedly well rolled. The turf will soon unite, and 

 in many instances will be found materially improved from its 

 former state, particularly so where the turf had been previously 

 hide-bound, or mossed. 



The turf may also be taken out of the grass-field in narrow 

 ribs, suppose three inches wide only, leaving three inches uncut ; 

 then with a top-dressing of compost, and the ground thoroughly 

 well rolled, the turf soon unites, and the herbage will be greatly 

 improved. In the operative part of transplanting turf, particular 

 attention is required in carefully turning the flag with its grass- 

 side up, and in pressing the plants well into the ground ; for if the 

 roots of the plants are left exposed to the vicissitudes of winter 

 weather, they will certainly be injured in a material degree. The 

 whole process should therefore be effected with all possible expe- 

 dition, particularly when carried on in winter ; but which is not 

 advisable, as frosts, more or less, are expected every night in that 

 season : no more turf should be cut, carried, and spread in the 

 day, than is likely to be planted before night. 



No stock of any kind should be admitted upon the young 

 pasture until after the grasses have perfected and shed their seed. 



The expense of converting arable land into pasture by trans- 

 planting turf (according to the certificate delivered by Mr. Henry 

 Blyth, of Burnham, as a claimant for the premium offered by 

 T. W. Coke, Esq., 1816, for the encouragement of this new 

 description of husbandry), is as follows : 



A. E. P. 



Extent of grass-land pared to produce plants for trans- 

 planting; the turf being clean pared off - - 1 2 18 

 Extent of arable land transplanted with the above - 11 15 



EXPENSE. 



. s. d. 

 To ploughing or paring 1 acre, 2 roods, 18 poles, at 



10s. per acre - 16 1J 



To carriage of 600 loads of turf, 50 days' work for one 



horse, at 3s. per day - 7 10 



To lads driving carts, one boy fourteen days, at Is. 2d. 



per day, and one ditto at IQd. per day - 19 8 



