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GRASSES AND OTHER PLANTS USED IN FARMING. 



The following are selected as the most important and valuable 

 plants used in rural economy; the grasses and other plants culti- 

 vated for their foliage, are particularly such as have been found to 

 merit attention; a knowledge of their true names is the first step 

 towards obtaining them, and when obtained it is of serious import- 

 ance to cultivate each sort in the soil and situation best adapted to 

 its nature, which is carefully pointed out in the following list. 



The judicious cultivation of grasses, though the least expensive 

 and most profitable part of husbandry (for on it every other part 

 may be said to depend) lias hitherto been too much neglected by the 

 generality of our farmers, and in this they have been blind to their 

 best interests. 



In order to be successful, a farmer should endeavour to procure 

 and cultivate such grasses and other vegetable productions as are 

 peculiarly adapted to the various soils of which his plantation is 

 composed; so that every spot, from the dryest hill to the wettest 

 swamp, may be employed in yielding him profitable productions. 



Those marked thus * are indigenous, or native plants of the 

 United States; and such as are marked thus t, of the West Indies 

 and warmer parts of America. 



GRASSES. 



♦Broine, Purging 

 Barnet, Field 

 ♦Blue 



Canary, Reedy 

 Clover, Red 



White 

 Yellow 

 *Cock's-foot, Swamp 

 ►Canadian, Reedy 

 Dog's-tail 

 Fox-tail, Meadow 

 Fiorin 



♦Fescue, Flote 

 ♦Tall 

 ♦Meadow 

 ♦Green 

 tGuinea (a) 

 ♦Herd 

 Lucern 

 Meadow, Rough stalked 



Sofl 



Water 



*Cree] 



►Smooth-stalked 



♦ Five nerved 

 Medic, Yellow 



Hop 

 Oat, Tall Meadow 



Yellow 

 ♦Orchard 



tPeruvian (l>) 



Bromus purgdns (wet soil) 

 Poterium Sanguisorba (dry good soil) 

 Poa. compressa {dry fields) 

 Phalaris arundinacia (wetsoiV) 

 Trifolvwm pratenie (moderately dry) 

 rcpens (rich dry soil) 

 ochroleucum (dry ground) 

 Dactylis Oynosuroides (swamps) 

 Cinna arundinacea (moist soil) 

 Cynosurus cristatus (dry ground) 

 Alopecurus pratensis (moist soil) 

 Agrostis stolonift ra ( wet or moist soil) 

 Pestuca JUiitans (swamps) 



elatoir (modi rati In moist) 

 prat ately dry) 



Poa viridis (rich and tolerably moist) 

 • iii urn maximum (strong warm soil) 

 lg ostis tricta\ wet or moist soil) 

 1/ Hi ago sqtiva (a ri dy loam) 



Poo triviahs (moist 

 Holt ns lanatus (moist soil) 

 Poa aquatica (swamp) 

 Poa stolonifi ra {met) 

 l'o, i pruli nsis (dry soil) 

 Poa >et) 



1/ cago falcata (dry soil) 



lupulina 

 . I I moderah lydry) 



\ry ground) 

 Dactylis glomerata (orchards and mode- 



rati in dry nn adow) 

 Paspalium stonolifi rum 



(a)Thissr:iss is by much too tender to bear tbewintei fro taofthe middle or pastern 

 states, but succeeds wen. in Geoi gla, and In the wannest parts of South Carolina. 

 (6) This Is nearly as tender as the preceding, and therefore not answerable for the 



