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this Plant will grow upon dry bar- 

 ren Soils, where Grafs will come 

 to little, and be of great Ufe in 

 dry Summers when Grafs is often 

 burnt up. And as it is an early 

 Plant in the Spring, £o it will be 

 of great Service when Fodder falls 

 fliort at that Scafon ; when it will 

 be fit to feed at leaft a Month be- 

 fore Grafs or Clover j for I have 

 had this Plant eight Inches high 

 by the tenth of March, at which 

 time the Grafs in the fame Place 

 has icarcely been one Inch high. 



That the Cold will not injure 

 this Plant, I am fully iatisfy'd, for 

 in the very cold Winter Anno i yif-, 

 I had fome Roots ot this Plant 

 which were dug up in O^ober, 

 and laid upon the Ground in the 

 open Air till the Beginning of 

 March; when I planted them a- 

 gain, and they (hot out very vigo- 

 roufly fbon after, nay even while 

 they lay upon the Ground, they 

 flruck out Fibres from the Under- 

 iide of the Roots, and had begun 

 to fhoot green from the Crown of 

 the Roots. But that Wet will de- 

 ilroy the Roots, I am fully con- 

 vinc'd, for I fow'd a little of the 

 Seed upon a moifl: Spot of Ground 

 for a Trial, which came up very 

 well, and flourifh'd exceedingly du- 

 ring the Summer-feafon i but in 

 Winter, when the great Rains fell, 

 the Roots began to rot at Bottom, 

 and before the Spring, were mofl 

 of them deflroy'd. 



The bed Places to procure the 

 Seed from, are Smtx^erland, and 

 the Northern Parts o": France, which 

 Hiccecd better with us than that 

 which comes from a more South- 

 ern Climate i But this Seed may 

 be fav'd in England \n great Plen- 

 ty j in order to which, a fmall 

 Quantity of the Plants Ihould be 

 futler'd to grow uncut till the 



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Seeds are ripe ; when it muft be cut,' 

 and laid to dry in an open Barn 

 where the Air may freely pafs 

 through, but the Seed muft be de- 

 fended from the Wet, for if it be 

 expos'd thereto, it will fhoot while 

 it remains in the Pod, whereby it 

 will be fpoil'd: When it is quite 

 dry, it muft be thrafh'd out and 

 cleans'd from the Husk, and pre- 

 ferv'd in a dry Place till the Sea- 

 ion for fowing it: And this Seed 

 fav'd in England is much prefera- 

 ble to any brought from Abroad, 

 as I have feveral times experi- 

 enc'dj the Plants produc'd from it 

 having been much ftronger than 

 thofe produc'd from Erench, Hel- 

 vetian, or Turkey Seeds, which 

 were fown at the fame Time, 

 and on the fame Soil and Situa- 

 tion. 



I am inclinable to think, that 

 the Reafbn of this Plant not fuc- 

 ceeding, when it has been fown ia 

 England, has either been cccafion'd 

 by the lowing it with Corn, with 

 which it will by no means thrive ; 

 (for tho' the Plant be very hardy 

 when grown pretty large, yet at 

 its firft coming up, if it be incom- 

 moded by any other Plants or 

 Weeds, it feldom does well ; there- 

 fore it fhouid always be fown by 

 itfelf-, and carefully clear'd from 

 Weeds until it has Strength, after 

 which it is not eafily deftroy'd :) 

 Or perhaps People have fown it at 

 a wrong Sealcn, or in wet Wea- 

 ther, whereby the Seeds have rot- 

 ted and never come up, which 

 hath difcourag'd their attempting 

 it again ; But however the Suc- 

 cefs has been, I dare aver, that if 

 the Method of fowing and mana- 

 ging of this Plant, which is here 

 laid down, be duly folio w'd, it will 

 be found to thrive as v/ell as any 

 other Sort of Fodder oov7 cultiva- 

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