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QO MINUTES OF 



On Artificial Grasses. 



No stock should be siiffered to graze upon the seeds the first year, and if it 

 were top dressed with one quarter of rape or bone dust to an acre, about old 

 Michaelmas, the plants Avould be greatly invigorated. 



Upoist such- land as the above, it furnishes a crop of hay in summer of 

 greater consideration, than any other of the artificial grasses. The hay is excel- 

 lent for all kinds of stock, and the after math very good for cattle in autumn, 

 and for sheep in winter, till Candlemass. Hence saintfoin is a most invaluable 

 gKwxon limestone, gravelly, and chalky soils. 



■ Saintfoin requires three years in coming to. perfection : hence the propriety 

 of sowing common red clover or trefoil along with it. 



This grass should be mown before it is in full blossom. 



III. Sanguisorba Officinalis, .Common Burnet. 

 Ca/. four-cleft Germ, between the calyx and corol. /Sees? single. 



Perennial, flowering in June and July. 



Leaves unequally pinnated, leaflets cordate, acutely crenated, smooth. Stem 

 two feet high, upright, rather naked, branchy. Spikes elliptic, obtuse, blackish- 

 red, the upper flowers opening first, Corol outwardly hairy at the base. Germen 

 closely invested by a smooth coat rising from the base of the corol. 



This plant belongs to Class IV. Tetrandria. Order Monogynia. 



There are severai varieties of this plant; but the only one worth cultivation 

 in this country, is the above. This plant, though little cultivated, is highly 

 valuable, eitljer green, or in hay for horses, and cattle, and is an excellent winter 

 food for sheep. 



It delights most in a dry, clean, light, and deep soil, but it will groAV very 

 well on poor, gravelly, and chalky soils, Avhich must be made clean and fine by 

 culture. 



About the middle or latter end of July, the land should be ploughed for 

 the last time, and harrowed well ; after these operations, four pecks of seed should 

 be sown^broad-cast, upon every acre, and then bush harrowed and rolled. 



