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HOW TO GROW GOOD GRASSES. 



meadows ; and where it forms a very large portion 

 of the herbage, it speaks of poverty as well as 

 wet, and would lead to the inference that a little 

 draining, less frequent haymaking, and liberal doses 

 of manure, would have a most decidedly beneficial 

 effect. 



Ftg. 27. Woolly Soft Grass. 



F\q. 28. Quaking Grasses. 



Quaking Grasses (Briza media, fig. 28, B. minor, a, 

 and B. maxima, b), though certainly amongst our 

 pretty species, are all useless to the farmer. The 

 common species is well known in all wet or poor 

 clay meadows, and where very abundant we should 



