WHAT IS NOW SOWN IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



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The reader will observe that this recent experimenter omits 

 the rye grasses, sweet vernal and some clhers, which are fonnd 

 in nearly every list generally recommended for use in Great 

 Britain. 



Rye grass was the first true grass recommended for cultivation 

 more thau 200 years ago, and has been most extensively recom- 

 mended by seedsmen and used by farmers generally for perma- 

 nent grass lands. It is still much used, but some of them agree 

 with Mr. DeLaune, that it is one of the least desirable for such 

 purposes. This slow progress and the following of an old custom is 

 more than matched by the following in reference to the practice 

 of medicine. 



Some years ago, Dr. 0. W. Holmes, of Harvard, said: "Doc- 

 tors have been using common elder as a remedy for more than 

 2,000 years, and have just found out that it possesses no medicinal 

 value whatever." 



The fact is, the farmers of Great Britain seem to rely largely 

 on the recommendations of seedsmen as to wliat sorts and how 

 much they shall sow. These men naturally put in a liberal 



