GRASSES AND OTHER PLANTS USED IN FARMING. 539 



* asiaticum 



,, * nervosum 

 Curcuma rotunda 



,, longa 



Cyclamen indicuin 

 IJioscorea saliva 



alata 



Gloriosa superba 



* Iris martinicensis 

 Kteinpferia Galanga 



,, rotunda 

 *Limodoruin altum 



,, * Tankeriiilia 



,, * virens 



* recurvum 

 Litarosea 



,, c<erulea 

 Maranta arundinacea 



* Marica pa'.udosa 



,, * pUcata 



* Pancrattum mexicanum 



caribceum 

 littorals 

 ,, verecundum 

 ,, amboinensc 

 ,, zeylanicum 



* Polianthes tuberosa. 



Asiatic do. 



Nerved-leaved do. 



Round-rooted Turmeric 



L on g -rooted do . 



Indian Cyclamen 



Cultivated Dioscorea, or Yam 



Wing-stalked do. (with several other 



less valuable species) 

 Superb Lily 

 Martinico Iris 

 Galengfale Kacmpferia 

 Round do. 

 Tall Limodorum 

 Chinese do. 

 Striated-flowered do. 

 Striated-bulbed do. 

 Rose-coloured Lita 

 Blue do. 



Indian Arrow-root 

 Marsh Marica 

 Small-flowered do. 

 Mexican Pancratium 

 Caribean clo. 

 Tall do. 



Narcissus-leaved do. 

 Broad-leaved do. 

 Ceylonese do. 

 Tuberose 



GRASSES AND OTHER PLANTS USED IN FARMING. 



THE following are selected, as the most important and 

 valuable plants, used in rural ceconomy: 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 cultivate each sort in the soil and situa- 

 tion best adapted to its nature, which is carefully pointed out in the 

 following list. 



The judicious cultivation of glasses, though the least expensive 

 aixd 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 endeavour to procure 

 and cultivate, such grasses and other vegetable productions, as are 

 peculiarly adapted to the various soils, of which his plantation is 

 composed ; so that every spot, from the dryest hill to the wetest 

 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. 



