ijq. The Natural Hiflory 



or Everlafling-grafs ; but according to Dr. Morifon, the true Lu- 

 cern, now every where known, and therefore nothing concern- 

 ing the qualities and advantages of i/.) They have lately fown 

 Ray-grafs, or the Gramen Loliaceum, by which they improve any 

 cold, four, clay -weeping ground, for which it is beft, but good al- 

 fo for dryer up -land grounds, efpecially light Jiony, or fandy 

 Land, which is unfit for SainSf-foin. 



32. It was firft fown (as I was told) in the Chiltern parts of 

 Oxford-fiire, and fince brought nearer Oxford by one Mr Euftace, 

 an ingenious Husband-man of I/lip, who though at firft laught at, 

 has been fince followed even by tbofe very perfons that fcorn'd 

 his Experiment, it having precedence of all other grajjes, in that 

 it takes almoft in all forts of poor Land, endures the drought of 

 Summer beft, and in the Spring is the carlyeft grafs of any, and 

 cannot at that time be over-ftock'd ; its being kept down making 

 it fweeter, and better beloved by Cattle than any other grafs : 

 Nay, fomtimes they have been known to leave Meddow hay to feed 

 on this : but of all other Cattle it is beft for Horfes y it being hard 

 Hay ; and for Sheep, if unfound, it having been known by expe- 

 rience to have work'd good cures on them, and in other refpe&s 

 the beft Winter grafs that grows. 



33. As to the manure of it, fome fow but two hufiels on the 

 Statute Acre, but 'tis beft to fow three, mixt with the trifolium 

 agrarium Dodon<*i, called Melilot- trefoil, and fomtimes Non-fuch, 

 becaufe of it felf it is but a thinfpirygnz/?, and will not be of 

 any bulk the firft year, unlefs thickned by the Trefoil, which fail- 

 ing by degrees, the Ray or bennet-grafs (fo fome alfo call it) 

 thickens upon it, and lafts for ever. Of Ray-grafs and Trefoil 

 thusmix'd together, one at I/lip but lately hadfo advantagious 

 a crop, that from four Statute Acres, worth not above forty fal- 

 lings per annum ; befide the keeping fix or eight cattle till holy 

 Ihurfday, and the feeding ail the Winter following, had twenty 

 Quarters of Seed worth twenty pounds, and fourteen loads of 

 fodder, enough to winter five or fix cattle. 



34. The fenum Burgundiacum caeruleum UObelii, or Medica legi- 

 tima Clufiiis? EW0tfei,commonly called Lucern. but by the Learn- 

 ed Dr. Morifon faid to be the true Saintt-join, is alfo fown here, 

 and found to agree well enough with a rich moift ground, but bet- 

 ter by much in a warm and dry foil. This ftands recommended 



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