i.iS NATURAL GRASSES. 12. 



curfory way, becaufe I have not yet had op- 

 portunity of ftudying it maturely. It ap- 

 pears to me, however, a fubjedt of the firft 

 importance in Rural Economics : for meanly 

 as we are habituated to think of this lowly 

 drudge, the profperity of the vegetable and 

 animal creation may hinge upon it. Its na- 

 tural hiflory appears to me a fubjedt of fuf- 

 ficient importance to engage the attention of 

 any man ; let his abilities and pretenfions be 

 what they may : and it is a fubjecl which 

 any man of leifure may apply himfelf to 

 without difficulty. 



4. WEEDING GRASSLAND. This depart- 

 ment of, the grafsland management is too 

 little attended to. Beds of the common tbifile 

 are too frequently fufTered to feed in paftures, 

 to the great nuifance of the neighbourhood ; 

 while both meadows and paftures are not un- 

 frequently difgraced with the dock ; a weed 

 which requires much lefs indullry to extir- 

 pate it. 



I met with an inftance of a meadow, foul 

 in the extreme with knobweed> cured by paf- 

 turing it repeatedly with Jheep in the fpring. 



Ragwort 



