242 SIBERIAN MELILOT. 



This is the month for a spring sowing. There 

 is no object in the whole range of cultivation, 

 which demands land to be so perfectly clean as 

 this, nor is any weed so mischievous, as a different 

 sort of grass from that sown, nor any more likely to 

 come. The seed must be sown in drills by hand, 

 at one foot asunder, and from their first appear- 

 ance above ground, kept absolutely clean. The 

 year following that of sowing, they yield most seed, 

 and presently decline in quantity. I have known 

 several persons who have made the experiment, 

 and who all gave it up. The sorts to be recom- 

 mended are the meadow fescue, the poatrivialis, 

 the crested dog's-tail, the meadow fox-tail, and the 

 rough eock's-foot. Timothy is always to be had 

 from America, and Yorkshire- white is in common 

 sale. But for the farmer's own use, it is not so 

 necessary to be so very nice, in which case, broad- 

 cast crops may be trusted to, for a mixture is no 

 formidable circumstance. I have had the cock's- 

 foot and the tall oat-grass gathered at 4s. a bushel, 

 in large quantities ; and the crested dog's-tail at 

 I*, a pound, and have thus laid down many scores 

 of acres. At these prices I have found them 

 cheaper than when raised in drills with great atten- 

 tion. 



SIBERIAN MELILOT. 



" The Melilotus Sibyrica, from Mons. Thouin, 

 at the King's Garden, at Paris, makes in the garden 

 of Mons. Faujas de St. Fond, a most superb figure. 

 Nobody can vievy its prodigious luxuriance, with-* 



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