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more luxuriant grass, than any we can yet expect. 

 Perhaps the acre meant, is the Irish acre ;— more than 

 one half larger than ours. The strings of my grass 

 are, certainly, much inferior, both in size and succu- 

 lency, to the best of the imported Irish Fiorin. 



My horses ate the green Fiorin greedily ; though 

 there is, in some parts, a small tang of mustiness. My 

 cows do not relish it, now ; whatever they may do in 

 winter, when I shall try them with that cured for keep, 

 ing. 



I send some strings; which will serve as a speci- 

 men of the crop ;— tolerably promising for the first 

 year ; and considering my having yet every thing to 

 learn, as to its culture ; and that my ground is dry. 

 Many strings measure five and six feet in length. I 

 have furnished every means I possess, in the present 

 stage of the experiment, to enable the society to form 

 its opinion. 



I have frequently chewed the strings. They afford 

 a remarkable sweetness, or saccharine taste ;— far be- 

 yond other grass. In Evans ^ Euffifs Former's Jour- 

 nal, London. May 3d, 1813, there is the following 

 paragraph ; which they give from an Edinburgh paper ; 

 —without vouching for the truth of it.— This weekly 

 journal, is a valuable collection of agricultural informa- 

 lion ; of unimpeached credit, and well supported. 



" Fiorin Grass. A chemist, whose accuracy may 

 '' be depended on, has lately submitted this celebrated 

 '* herb to analysis ; and found, as might have been ex- 

 '' pected, that it contained a very unusual quantity of 

 '' saccharine matter, not unlike treacle in colour; and 

 '' halving very much the taste of a mixture of that sub- 



