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regards Nos. 10, 12, and 13. In fact, the whole here 

 grouped may be said to possess more or less hitter 

 and astringent qualities, and so become useful in 

 checking the vapidity which is sometimes found in 

 purely grass herbage. 



11. the Yarrow, should be encouraged in most 

 pastures, as it not only possesses the qualities just 

 mentioned, but its leaves are so small and its stems 

 and flowers so easily dry when cut, that there is no 

 chance of its smothering out the grass in growing, or 

 of its retarding the process of haymaking. It also 

 bears constant nibbling with sheep, which arc remark- 

 ably fond of it, without injury, as it rather becomes 

 finer for being depastured. 



12. The larger composite plants, as dandelion, the 

 hawkweeds, blackhead, &c, are, from their coarseness 

 and the room they take up, highly objectionable; 

 but the yellow hawkbits, thrincia, and the before- 

 mentioned yarrow, are by no means objectionable. 



13. The above remarks will equally apply to the 

 Umuellifera?. Large plants like the cow-parsnip and 

 common beaked parsley arc objectionable from their 

 size and want of feeding properties, whilst the small 

 pimpinella and earth-nut do not offer these objections. 

 Here, however, it must be confessed that we are 

 bordering on the domains of weeds in pasture, to 

 which we must devote a separate chapter. 



