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the lateft. In the fpring it cannot be eaten too 

 early, if the animals can but live upon it; for, 

 if it be fuffered to fpindle, it will be exhaufted 

 before the fpring, or bell feafon is over : on the 

 contrary, if eaten clofe, it will keep continually 

 springing, as cabbages fprout after being cut; 

 and the more it is eaten, the more it will 

 grow. 



At the time when the rye-grafs is fo very 

 luxuriant, the white clover is totally concealed 

 in the ground, but the trefoil makes fome 

 fmall appearance ; and when the rye-grafs has 

 done all that can be expected, the trefoil 

 fprings up and becomes food for the fheep; 

 after which the white clover fucceeds, and in 

 like manner fupplies the fheep or cattle. When 

 the white clover is done, the rye-grafs again 

 fprings up, and continues growing all winter, 

 if the weather prove tolerably open. At all 

 events, it will grow if any grafs can grow. 



If you intend it for meadow, and fow one 

 fack upon an acre, it will be like throwing the 

 feeds of the trefoil and white clover away; as 

 rye-grafs, by fpringing fo early and by fmother- 

 ing the land, prevents the others from growing 

 to any degree of perfection. 



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