HOW TO GROW GOOD GRASSES. 



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The following table is offered as an attempt at the 

 classification of the weeds of pasture, the different 

 divisions of which we shall presently describe in the 

 order of their arrangement. 



TABLE OF PASTURE WEEDS. 

 1. Plants which take up space but yield no Produce. 



Trivial Name. 



Broad-leaved Plantain 



Dent-de-lion 



Daisy 



Cowslip 



Primrose 



Green-winged Orchis 

 Early Purple Orchis. . 



Botanical Name. 



Plantago media f 



Leontodon taraxacum -j 

 Bellis perennis 



Primula veris ! 



„ vulgaris . . 



Orchis Morio 



,, mascula .... 



The leaves of these plants grow 

 too close to the ground to be 

 eaten off by cattle or to cut 

 for hay. 



These plants take up much room 

 in growing, they are not eaten 

 by cattle, and, as they die be- 

 fore haymaking, yield little or 

 nothing to the rick. 



2. Plants which take up space, but simply dilute the hay with useless matter 



Blunt-leaved Dock 

 Crisp-leaved Dock. , 



Marsh Dock , 



Field Sorrel , 



Burdock 



Butter Burr 



Cow Parsnip 



Wild-beaked Parsley. . . . 



Ladies' Smock 



Yellow Rattle 



Larger Hawkweeds, &c. 



Rumex obtu3ifolius 

 ,, crispus .. . 

 ,, palustris . 

 „ acetosa . . . 



Arctium Lappa \ 



Petasites vulgaris 



HeracleumSphondylium ( 

 Anthriscus vulgaris . . | 

 Cardamine pratensis .... 

 Rhinanthus crista galli 

 Hieracium species .... 



All common, especially in damp 

 meadows, are not usually de- 

 pastured, and have little or no 

 feeding properties when made 

 into hay. 



Common about the borders of 

 fields. 



Common near watercourses. 



Very common and unsightly in 

 pastures. 



In damp places. 



In poor cold clays. 



About fields in upland districts. 



3. Mechanical Plants, those with Splines, Prickles, Stings, §'c. 



Musk Thistle 



Welted Thistle 



Creeping Thistle 



Cotton Thistle 



Spear Thistle 



Marsh Plume Thistle . . 

 Meadow Plume Thistle . . 



Stemless Thistle 



Carline Thistle 



Common Stinging Nettle 

 Smaller Stinging Nettle 



Wall Barley 



Carduus nutans 



,, acanthoides . 



,, arvensis . . . 



,, eriophorus . 



„ lanceolatus , 



„ palustris . . , 



,, pratensis .. , 



„ acaulis 

 Carlina vulgaris 



Urtica dioica 



urens 



Hordeum murinum 



Mostly a weed in " seeds." 



In hedgerows, borders of field.-:, 

 or the open meadows. 



Damp or marsh meadows. 



Common to poor calcareous up- 

 lands. 



About the homestead, corners of 

 fields, &c. 



About sandy soils, both in the 

 meadow and arable, 



