622 GRASSES AND OTHER PLANTS USED IN FARMING, ETC. 



GRASSES AND OTHER PLANTS USED IN FARMING. 



The following are selected as the most important and valuable 

 plants used in rural economy ; the grasses and other plants cultivated 

 for their foliage, are particularly such as have been found to merit 

 attention ; a knowledge of their true names is the first step towards 

 obtaining them, and when obtained it is of serious importance to cul- 

 tivate each sort in the soil and situation best adapted to its nature, 

 which is carefully pointed out in the following list. 



The judicious cultivation of grasses, though the least expensive 

 and most profitable part of husbandry (for on it every other part 

 may be said to depend), has hitherto been too much neglected by the 

 generality of our farmers, and in this they have been blind to their 

 best interests. 



In order to be successful, a farmer should endeavor to procure and 

 cultivate such grasses and other vegetable productions as are pecu- 

 liarly adapted to the various soils of which his plantation is composed ; 

 so that every spot, from the dryest hill to the wettest swamp, may 

 be employed in yielding him profitable productions. 



Those marked thus * are indigenous, or native plants of the United 

 States ; and such as are marked thus f, of the West Indies and 

 warmer parts of America. 



GRASSES. 



*Brome, Purging 



Barnet, Field 



*Blue 



Canary, Reedy 



Clover, Red 

 White 

 Yellow 



=*Cock's-foot, Swamp 



^Canadian, Reedy 



Dog's-tail 



Fox-tail, Meadow 



Fiorin 



*Fescue, Flote 

 *Tall 

 #Meadow 



*Ghreen 



tGhiinea(a) 



*Herd 



Lucern 



Meadow, Rough-stalked 

 Soft 

 Water 

 ^Creeping 

 ^Smooth-stalked 

 *Five-nerved 



Medic, Yellow 

 Hop 



Bromus purgans (wet soil) 

 Poterium Sanguisorba (dry good soil) 

 Poa compressa (dry fields) 

 Phalaris arundinacia (wet soil) 

 Trifolium pratense (moderately dry) 

 repens (rich dry soil) 

 ochroleucum (dry ground) 

 Dactylis Cynosuroides (swamps) 

 Cinna arundinacea (moist soil) 

 Cynosurus cristatus (dry ground) 

 Alopecurus pratensis (moist soil) 

 Agrostis stolonifera (wet or 'moist soil) 

 Festuca Jluitans (swamps) 



elatior (moderately moist) 

 pratensis (moderately dry) 

 Poa viridis (rich and tolerably 'moist) 

 Panicum maxirmim, (strong warm soil) 

 Agrostis stricta (wet or moist soil) 

 Medicago sativa (a rich, dry, sandy loam) 

 Poa trivialis (moist soil) 

 Holcus lanatus (moist soil) 

 Poa aquatica (swamp) 

 Poa stolonifera (wet) 

 Poa pratensis (dry soil) 

 Poa nervata (wet) 

 Medicago falcata (dry soil) 

 hipulina 



(a) This grass is by much too tender to bear the winter frosts of the 

 middle or eastern States, but succeeds well in Georgia, and in the warmest 

 parts of South Carolina. 



