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On Artificial Grasses. $J 



Immediately, or as soon as the land will permit, the whole field should t>fe rolled 

 the cross way of the lands ; after this nothing more is necessary to be done till the 

 season of application. , 



2. Of the Purple Flowered JVild Vetch, or JVinter Tare. 



Vetch with sessile, solitary, smooth legumes, subtrijugous leaves, the lower 

 ones being retuse, entire stipules, and tuberculated seeds. 



Annual, flowering in April and May. 



Stems procumbent, divaricated. Plant pubescent. Leaves two or three-wing- 

 ed, with a simple tendril which is often very short and almost abortive: leaflets 

 opposite, obcordate, sometimes lanceolate and narrowed towards the top of the 

 stem. Stipules semisagittate, commonly very entire, unspotted. Flowers subses- 

 sile, solitary, small, blueish. Legume upright, very smooth, many-seeded. Seeds 

 cubical, rough-tuberculated. 



Varies with a white flower. 



It is distinguished from the former by its smooth legumes and rough-tu- 

 berculated seeds, not to mention that the tendrils are never branched, nor the 

 leaflets more than six in number. 



These six preceding plants belongs to Class XVII Diadclphia. Order 

 Decandria. 



The great objects in cultivating this tare, are 1st. spring food and sum- 

 mer herbage for cattle and sheep, especially cmts and lambs. 2nd. hay as a 

 substitute for red clover. 3rd. manure, to be buried in by the plough. And 

 4th. seep. 



But whatever is the intended use of this tare, the preparation of the land 

 and time of sowing is the same in all. August and September is the prime season 

 for sowing the seed of this tare. As soon therefore as the ground can be cleared 

 of its crop, the land should be ploughed and harrowed once in a place before the 

 seed is sown. 



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