( So ) 



increafes io rapidly, or which it is fo difficult 

 to deftroy. 



To enable the farmer to diftinguifh rye- 

 grafs, it will be necefTary to defcribe the feed. 

 Real rye-grafs has feed fornething like rye, 

 ftiort and black-hearted, very full of flour and 

 very heavy, as it will weigh from eight to nine 

 Hone per fack, reckoning fourteen pounds to 

 the ftone, and four bufhels Winchefter meafure 

 to the fack. The feed of couch-grafs is longer 

 and lighter, the root of the plant joints, and fo 

 do the branches* and it is fo fucculent that 

 every joint will emit a root. There are a great 

 many fpecies of it. As this plant is fo abun- 

 dant, the earth no doubt is ftrongly impregnated 

 with the kcd } which renders the total eradica- 

 tion of it nexttoimpoiTible. But yet, although 

 it cannot be totally deftroyed, it may by good 

 management be kept tmder. 



On my return from valuing an eflate in the 

 county of Lincoln, I pafTed over forne land 

 rented by a farmer* and there faw the moil pro- 

 lific crop of twitch I ever before had met with. 

 i believe that had the roots been carefully col- 

 lected, dried and ftacked, they would have 

 proved more abundant, and formed a much 



larger 



