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On Artificial Grasses. 



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As the proper season for sowing it is the latter end of July. Hence it becomes _ 

 an excellent succedaneum to turnips, when they Imve been destroyed by the fly. 

 But the most profitable way of cultivating burnet, is by sowing it with other 

 seeds, Avhen the land is to be layed down, viz. 



Burnet Seed, l Peck. , i» 



"White Clover, 10 Pounds. 



Trefoil, • • -t Ditto. 



Vernal Grass, i Peck. 



Ray Grass, ••••••• 1 Ditto. 



Crested Dogstail, , 5- Ditto. 



Sheeps Fescue, ' • • • ^ Ditto. 



The above are all the kinds and quantities of seeds which ought to be sown 

 upon an acre with burnet seed, which should be bush harrowed and rolled; and 

 afterwards kept clean of luxuriant weeds. 



But however much this plant has been extolled, yet it is seldom sown either 

 alone, or with other grass seeds, since the introduction of red and white clover, 

 though its greatest excellence is for winter pasture. 



It is more common in the western than in the eastern parts of England. 

 IV. 1. Trifolium Pratense, Meadow Trefoil, or Common Red Clover. 

 2. Trifolium Medium, Middle Trefoil, or Cow Red C lover, 

 1. Of Meadow Trefoil. 

 Trefoil with dense spikes, ascending stems, unequal corols, four equal ca- 

 lycine teeth, and awned stipules. 



Perennial, flowering from May to September. 



Root branchy. Stems ascending, a foot or more in height, somewhat branch- 

 ing, subvillose on the upper part. Leaflets elliptic, generally very' entire, smooth- 

 ish. Upper leaves often opposite. Stipules widely ovate, connate, shortly a\vTted, 

 pale, nerved with purple veins branching to^vards the margin and anastomosing. . 

 Spikes 'terminal, sessile, solitary, ovate, obtuse, dense, many--flowered, swcet- 



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