AND OTHER FORAGE PLANTS. 35 



2. A. PRATENSIS, Meadow Fox-tail, is larger than the prece- 

 ding, 2 to 3 feet high, grows with great luxuriance, and in Eng- 

 land is regarded as holding a place with the best grasses, both 

 as green forage and as hay. 



WAY'S ANALYSIS. Green. Dried. 



Water, 80.20 



Albuminous or flesh forming principles, 2.44 13.32 



Fatty matters, .52 2.92 



Heat producing principles, starch, sugar, etc., 8.59 43.12 



Woody fibre, 6.70 33.83 



Mineral matter or ash, 1.55 7.81 



100.00 100.00 



This grass resembles timothy in appearance, but the head is 

 soft, while that of timothy is rough. It grows after cutting 

 much more rapidly than timothy and bears grazing better, 

 though it does not attain perfection till two or three years old. 

 It grows best on rich, nioist or even wet soils and is one of the 

 most valuable of grasses. 



PHLEUM. 



P. PRATENSE, Timothy. 



About one hundred and seventy years ago, a Mr. Herd found 

 this grass in a swamp in New Hampshire. He cultivated it; oth- 

 ers followed his example and called it Herd's grass, by which 

 name it is still know in New York and the New England States. 

 It must be noted, however, that this is not the herd's grass of 

 the other States. From the shape of the spike it is often called 

 Cat's-tail grass. About the year 1720, it Avas brought to Mary- 

 land by Timothy Hanson, who cultivated it so successfully on 

 the Hanson farm as to give it a widespread fame and the familiar 

 name now generally accepted for it. 



London claims if as a native of England. The Am. Farmer's 

 Cyclopedia says it is "perennial, native of Britain," and in the 

 next sentence but one says, "This is a great American grass, and 

 is called timothy from Mr. Timothy Hanson, who first introdu- 

 ced its seeds into Maryland." It may have become naturalized 

 in America at a very early time ; but from a large amount of 

 testimony, with which these pages need not be encumbered, 

 there is strong reason to believe that it is a native of the United 

 States, and was taken from Virginia to England about the year 

 1760. It attracted but little attention in England till 1824, 

 when Sinclair's Woburn Abbey experiments were made. 



The more elaborately accurate investigations of Prof. Way ful- 

 ly established its value. Subjoined is 



