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iique culm or haulm paneile 

 squeezed, spicules round, (colum- 

 nar) and eight flowered." This is 

 eaten tolerably well by cattle when 

 young, and remains green until af- 

 ter frost. It binds the soil, in the 

 course of three or four years, so as 

 to require ploughing up. This is 

 often mistaken for the green grass, 

 and both are called occasionally 

 Spear Grass, and wire grass." Do- 

 mestic Encyclopcedia. 



13. Col. Taylor, of Virginia, in 

 a paper on artificial grasses, com- 

 municated to the Agricultural So- 

 ciety of Virginia, says, "The best 

 grass which I have tried in many 

 respects is one commonly called 

 " the highland meadow-oat." I 

 have had no means of ascertaining 

 whether it is a species of rye grass, 

 or of the avena pratensis, or nei- 

 ther, nor whence it derived the ap- 

 pellation " Peruvian," by which I 

 have heard it distinguished. With 

 its qualities I am better acquainted, 

 having carefully observed them for 

 many years. It ripens as early as 

 the red clover, and is easily made 

 into fine hay, if cut in proper time. 

 Its earliness is of vast importance 

 in our climate. Thence it hap- 

 pens that it produces heavy spring 

 crops, like red clover, as it com- 

 monly perfects its growth, before 

 a drought occurs. It is the hardi- 

 est grass I ever saw, and bears 

 drought and frost, and heat and 

 cold much better than any I have 

 tried. It keeps possession of the 

 land in spite of severe grazing. It 

 flourishes but on soils suitable for 

 red clover, but it will live on and 

 improve lands, whereon red clover 

 will perish. It furnishes better 



grazing early in the spring, late in 

 the fall, in droughts and in winter, 

 than any grass known to me. Ri- 

 pening with the red clover, it is 

 peculiarly fitted for being sown 

 with it, because it greatly facili- 

 tates its conversion into hay, re- 

 tains possession of the ground for 

 years after the clover has disap- 

 peared. Alone, cut before the 

 seed ripens, its hay is as nutritive 

 and pleasant to stock of all kinds, 

 as any I have ever used ; and it 

 will yield both seed and tolerably- 

 good hay at one cutting, as it ri- 

 pens soonest at top. Mixed with 

 favourite grasses of grazing ani- 

 mals it is partially rejerted, but 

 eaten as they fail. Alone, it is 

 greedily fed on. After being cut 

 or grazed, if left to grow it rises 

 anew, almost with the rapidity of 

 lucerne, with a vigour but little di- 

 minished. Fifteen years experi- 

 ence has not enabled me to decide 

 as to its capacity for improving the 

 soil, because the small quantity of 

 seed first obtained, by confining ex- 

 periments to small patches, long 

 concealed its qualities ; and the 

 large lots first sown have remained 

 too flourishing to require manure, 

 and too valuable to be ploughed 

 up. It produces, (after it has come 

 to perfection, in doing which it is 

 one year slower than red clover,) 

 ungrazed and uncut, a warmer,and 

 more lasting cover than clover, 

 which has recently induced me to 

 mix and sow it with wheat on a 

 large scale, for the end of improv- 

 ing the soil ; in which anticipation 

 I have yet discerned no cause for 

 apprehension. For this purpose 

 it possesses one recommendation 



