86 CULTIVATED GRASSES. 11, 



baged meadow produced in this Diftridt 

 through the means of artificial graffes. 



Striking, however, as thefe fads may be, 

 they only afford matter of argument, do not 

 bring proof, againft the CULTIVATION of 



PERENNIAL LEYS. 



If a foil already exhaufted ly corn crops, and 

 foul through a want of 'tillage ', be rendered flill 

 fouler by Having the/^j of weeds, under the 

 denomination of " hay-feeds^" fown over it ; 

 and if, added to this, the weedy crop, which, 

 fuch management mtift neceflarily afford, be 

 mown year after year and the produce carried 

 off, it is no wonder that the fward, inflead of 

 improving by age, ihpuld annually go off, 

 and that the foil mould at length require to, 

 be given up again to the plow. 



On the contrary, if a foil, naturally fuired; 

 to grafs, in good heart, and thoroughly 

 cleanfed, be fown with the feeds of herbage 

 fuitable to its nature, and free from the feeds., 

 of weeds ; and if for a few years the young 

 ley be paftured in the fpririg, and ;he wee.ds 

 and broken grafs be fwept down with the, 

 fithe after Midfummer, a vvell-herbaged dur,- 



