66 Oji Fiorin Grass* 



A damp piece of ground, and the more so the bet- 

 ter, to a reasonable extent ; or one in a situation to be 

 watered by a stream, will be preferable ; though any 

 other will answer sufficiently. Watering the seedling 

 plants, if the weather be dry, would ensure success in 

 a soil not naturally moist. 



The facts and mode of culture, I have gathered from 

 European correspondents of such respectability, that 

 I have not the least doubt of their correctness. Nor 

 have I any doubts of the accounts given by Dr. Rich- 

 ardson, and others who have followed his practice, re- 

 specting the qualities and wonderful product of Fio- 

 rin, in Europe, How it will answer here, is yet to be 

 known by experience. The trial is well worthy our 

 unprejudiced exertions, and persevering attentions. 



Fiorin seems to be best calculated for grounds, fit 

 only for, and permanently devoted to, grass. Because 

 it forbids alternate farming, and is difficult to eradicate 

 after gaining possession, it has been reprobated by 

 European adversaries, who depreciate its real excel- 

 lencies, on account of its not falling in with a system 

 of husbandry, for which it may not be proper. But if 

 it will bring into great profit, soils not fit for the plough, 

 it. will supersede the necessity of keeping in grass, 

 lands which may be otherwise employed. If it will 

 add most abundantly, to the store of winter forage, 

 and is preferred to all other provender, by horses, 

 sheq:) and cattle ; — other grass lands may be grazed, 

 or placed under tillage, at the pleasure of the proprie- 

 tors of them. That it will grow well in grounds fit 

 for tillage, I have no doubt ; but it secerns best adapted 



