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ly, these plants I divided, and transplanted about three 

 acres of ground, but owing to the spring being very 

 dry, this could not be effected until the month of June, 

 wishing to have the ground well stocked with seed, I 

 made but little use of it. It seeded much earlier this 

 year, and much more abundantly. In the spring follow- 

 ing, (that is last spring) it came up in great abundance; 

 when it got about two feet high, I began to use it for 

 my riding horses and work creatures, in all not less 

 than thirty head, and the growth was so rapid, that not 

 more than half the ground was cut over, and some of 

 this not more than once : my son, who was more par- 

 ticular than myself, informed me it grew six inches in 

 twenty four hours. The seed sprouts about the time 

 of the common grasses, coming up with a single spire 

 and putting out a vast number of branches, something 

 like wheat, each of which may be transplanted. This 

 winter I have reason to believe the roots are also 

 killed. It seeded in great abundance last fall, and 

 much earlier than the two previous years. It continues 

 green until it is killed by the frost. On the river I am 

 persuaded it would seldom if ever be destroyed in the 

 winter. 



I am, respectfully, 

 Your obedient servant, 



Abner GREEfr. 

 Henry Turner, Esq_. 



On the 16th of July, 1812, I weighed the first cut- 

 ting of one plant of Guinea grass, which grew in Dn 

 Brown's lot. Its weiglit was thirty pounds of green 

 grass. 'J'homas Robinson, 



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