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Purpofeby our Neighbours in Trance 

 and SwitzLerlanJ for msny Years, 

 it hath not as yet found Recep- 

 tion in our Country, in any conli- 

 derablc Quantity : Tho* it is evi- 

 dentj it will iucceed as well in 

 England as in either of the before- 

 mention 'd Countries, being extreme 

 hardy, and refilling the fevereft 

 Cold of our Climate: Nay, I have 

 had the Seeds which have happen'd 

 to be fcatter'd upon the Ground in 

 Autumn, come up and endure the 

 Cold of a fevere Winter, and make 

 very ftrong Plants. 



About the Year i6fo, the Seeds 

 thereof were brought over from 

 Trancet and fbwn in JEngUnd: but 

 whether for want of Skill in its 

 Culture, whereby it did not fucceed, 

 or that People were fo fond of 

 going on in their old beaten Road, 

 as not to try the Experiment, whe- 

 ther it would fucceed here or not, 

 was the Occafion of its being in- 

 tirely neglected in E^iglaml^ I can- 

 not fay. However, 1 hope, before 

 I quit this Article, to give fuch Di- 

 rcdtions for its Culture, as will en- 

 courage the People of England to 

 make farther Trial of this valuable 

 Plant, which grows in the greateft 

 Hear, and alfo in very cold Coun- 

 tries, with this Dirterence only, 

 that in very hot Countries, fuch as 

 the SpaaiJJj Wejl-indies, ^c. where 

 it is the chief Fodder for their 

 Cattle at this time, they cut it every 

 Month, whcre.is in cold Countries 

 it is feldom cut oftner than two or 

 three times a Year. And it is very 

 likely that this Plant will be of 

 great Service to the Inhabitants of 

 Barbadoes, Jamaica,, and the other 

 hot Iflands in the }FeJi- Indies, where 

 one of the greateil Things they 

 want is Fodder for their Cattle ; 

 fince, by the Account given of this 

 Plant by Fere Imllei it thrives ex- 



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ceedingly in the Spanijh Weji-Indiesl 

 particularly about Limay where they 

 cut it every Week, and bring it 

 into the Market to fell, and is there 

 the only Fodder cultivated. 



It is alfo very common in Lein- 

 guedocy Frovence, and Dauphine, 

 and all over the Banks of the Rhone, 

 where it produces abundantly, and 

 may be mowed five or fix times in 

 a Year. Horfes, Mules, Oxen, and 

 other domeftick Cattle love it ex- 

 ceedingly, but above all when it is 

 green, if they are permitted to feed 

 on iti and efpecially the Black 

 Cattle, which will feed very kindly 

 upon the dry'd Plant } the Excels 

 of which is by many People thought 

 to be very dangerous : But it is laid 

 to be exceeding good for Milch- 

 Cattle, to promote their Quantity 

 of Milki and is alfo faid to agree 

 with Horfes the beft of all, tho* 

 Sheep, Goats, and mofl other Cattle 

 will teed upon it. 



The Diredions given by all thofe 

 who have wrote of this Plant, arc 

 very imperfed, and, generally, fuch 

 as if pradis'd in this Country, will 

 be found intirely wrong; for moft 

 of them order the mixing of this 

 Seed with Oats or Bar.ey, (as is 

 pradis'd for Clover) ; but in this 

 Way it icldom comes up well, and 

 if it does, it will draw up fo weak 

 by growing amongft the Corn, as 

 not to be recovered under a whole 

 Year, if ever it can be brought to 

 its ufual Strength again. 



Others have direded it to be 

 fbwn upon a low, rich, moifl Soil, 

 which is found to be the worfl 

 next to a Clay of any for this Plant ; 

 in both which the Roots v/ill rot 

 in Winter, and in a Year or tv/o 

 the whole Crop will be dcftroy'd. 



But the Soil in which this Plant 

 is found to fucceed beft in this 

 Country, is a light, dry, loofc, fandy 



Land, 



