AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING. 27 



On Artificial Grasses. 



Having given such a condensed- view of the structure, propagation, (by 

 sexual generation;) dissemination of seeds, (by a variety of natural agents,) and 

 of the component parts of vegetables, as coincided with the plan of this work; I 

 now pass on to exhibit the culture and use of the best artificial and natural grasses. 



DISSERTATION- II.; 



On the culture and use of Nine of the best ArtificiaL and of 

 Eight of the best Natural Grasses, dec, 



1. O?! Artificial Grasses. 



A^NE of the greatest things on which modern husbandry has been made to 

 turn, is the introduction of artifcial grasses; and yet it is lamentable to observe 

 how few districts make them a part of their course of cropping on arable land. 

 The principal plants that are termed artifical grasses, are, lucejine, saint- 



I'OTN, BURNET, tWO kiuds of RED CLOVER, WHITE CLOVER, TREFOIL, and tWO 



kinds of TARES. 



Here it will be unnecessary to enter into a laboured botanical detail of those 

 grasses, as the seeds may very readily be bought at the London seed shopsi-- I 

 shall therefore, only give an appropriate botanical description of each, mention a 

 few common qualities relative to the plants tliemselves, and then proceed to 

 jjoint out their particular culture, and best mode of application. 



L Medicago Saliva, Purple Lucerne or Medick, 



Legume compressed, screw-shaped, bending the keel downwards from the 

 standard. 



Medick with racemose foot-stalks, contorted legumes, and smooth upright 

 stem. 



Perennial, flowering in June and July. /TtT^IVBRSIT^'i 



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