AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING. Q9 



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On Artificial Grasses. ^ 



Every third year it should have a covering of rotten dung after the rate of 

 eight or ten tons to the acre, about Martinmas. 



11. Hedysarum Onobrychis, Cockshead or Saintfoin. 



Legume with single-seeded joints. Coro/ transversely obtuse. 



Saintfoin with pinnated leaves, single-seeded aculeated legume% wings 

 of the corol of the length of the calyx, and elongated stem. 



Pere««/a/, flowering in June and July. - "^ 



Stems decumbent, two or three feet long, furrowed, branchy. Leaves unequal- 

 ly-pinnate, leaflets numerous, elliptic, rather smooth, equal. Stipules ovate, acu- 

 minate, scariose. Foot-stalks axillary, ascending, very long, spiked, many-flower- 

 ed, hairy. Corol deep rose-coloured, striated. Legume crested, reticulate, hairy, 

 coriaceous, not gaping. Seed kidney-shaped, smooth. 



These two plants belongs to Class XFIL Diadelphia. Order Decandria. 



This plant produces the best crops upon dry, light, rich land; but it will 

 thrive upon the thinnest limestone, gravelly and chalky soils with great luxuri- 

 rance; even where these are so poor as to afford a very scanty crop of any of the 

 other sorts of grasses. It thrives best when sown alone, though it is frequently 

 soAvn with barley and oats. 



But upon what ever soil it is sown, the land should be brought into a very 

 fine and clean tilth by cultuie. 



About the latter end of March, or beginning of April, the land should be 

 ploughed ; if it is roughish, it should be harrowed- once in a place, then upon every 

 acre sow sixteen pecks of saintfoin seed ; harrow the land well, and'then sow eight 

 pounds of common red clover or trefoil upon every acre, afterwards the land 

 should be bush harrowed and rolled. 



If weeds appear among the saintfoin, they must be destroyed as they corne 

 up, by hand, 



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