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HOW TO GROW GOOD GRASSES. 

 4. Poisonous Pasture-weeds, 6fc. 



5. Ill-favoured Weeds or Plants ivhich communicate lad flavour to Produce. 



Crow Garlic 



Hogs' Garlic 



Jack-by-the-Hedge 



Allium vineale ( ! More or less in m 



„ ursinum ( corners of fields. 



Erysimum Alliaria | About the hedgerow. 



and 



6. Useless Grasses, or Grass-like Plants. 



Rough Grasses 

 Sedges 



Rushes 



Species 

 Species. 



Species. 



Poor land and wet places. 



In boggy, marshy, or wet sandy 



spots. 

 In sandy spots on clays and poor 



soils. 



1. Taking the broad-leaved plantain as the type 

 of this list, we shall have no difficulty in estimating 

 the amount of mischief which it does. Here is a 

 plant, a single specimen of which not unfrequently 

 occupies nearly a square foot of ground, and as its 

 leaves grow close to the soil, it effectually prevents 

 the growth of the grass, while few, if any, leaves 

 are cut with the scythe. The bare patches which 

 result from the cutting up of plantains from a lawn- 

 will sufficiently establish the first position, whilst, if 

 one occasionally meets with a few of the leaves cut off 

 in haymaking, it commits the further mischief of 

 being so long in drying as to retard the process of 

 haymaking, or else to endanger the safety of the 

 rick. It is on account of this that the plantain has 

 in some districts got the name of the '"'Eire Grass." 



These are easily removed by the spud, especially if 

 a little salt be added to their crowns. 



