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to the best advantage, and which a little more 

 attention to their weeding would have effected, 

 c vidently marks the conviction and confidence 

 of his own mind, as to the value of his adopted 

 herbage. Fiorin may be made conducive to 

 the cultivation of extensive tracts of land, 

 hitherto considered as of little or no value. As 

 an aquatic, I should not be disposed to intro- 

 duce it on any ground not capable of being 

 irrigated, and where it was not to be considered 

 as permanent meadow. It cannot be esteemed 

 as the rival of our best grasses, but as one which 

 thrives prodigiously where other grasses would 

 only exist. It will grow luxuriantly, as stated 

 by Mr. Millar of Dalswinton in Dumfriesshire, 

 nine hundred feet above the level of the sea. 

 When cut a fortnight, a few days are sufficient 

 to prepare it for stacking. It is so tenacious of 

 life, that I should have some apprehension 

 such parts as must unavoidably be scattered in 

 leading and stacking, might again vegetate in 

 the dung heap, and become a troublesome in- 

 truder on the arable part of a farm. Should I 

 be asked whether I conceive that fiorin will be- 

 come generally adopted, my reply would be, 

 that I think and hope it will, on such soils as 

 are proper for it ; but to the exclusion of clover 

 and other grasses, on all other lands, certainly 

 not ; for I can get as great a weight of clover 



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