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the proper preparation ,per acre. If sown alone, two bushels 

 are required. For pasturage alone, a mixture of the white 

 clover will form an excellent addition. Whatever opinions 

 may prevail with respect to the cultivation of the grasses in 

 the eastern part of the State, or even the middle, there can 

 be but little doubt, that when the attempt is made to intro- 

 duce a more extended pasturage, this grass will have the 

 preference over many others. 



The analysis of the ash of the orchard gave, Prof. Way : 



'Silica, 26 65 



Phosphoric acid, 8.60 



Sulphuric a'cid, , 3.52 



'Carbonic acid, 2.09 



Lime, ,. . 5.82 



Magnesia, 2.22 



Per oxide of iron, 0.59 



Potash, 29.52 



Chloride of potassium, 17.86 



^Chloride sodium, 3.09 



Percentage of ash furnished by the dry plant, 5.51 



The nutritive value of this grass is exhibited in the follow- 

 ing analysis of Prof. Way : 



Water, 70.00 



Albuninous matter, (flesh forming,) 4.06 



Falty matters, 0.94 



Starch gum sugar, (heat producing bodies,) 13.30 



Woody fibre, 10.11 



Ash, 1.59 



ELYMUS WILD RYE. 



It has two or more spikelets at the joints of the rachis, and is 

 from 3 to 9 flowered. Glume 2, nearly equal, sometimes 

 wanting; lower paleae entire with a short awn ; upper one 

 bifid. Scales ovate hairy. 



ELYMUS ARENARIUS. UPRIGHT SEA LIME GRASS. 



Stem erect, round, smooth from two to five feet high, and 

 bearing sessile spikelets ; leaves long, narrow, rolled inward, 

 and rough on the inner surface ; root, long, perennial and 

 creeping. 



