60 



pensate the soil for the want of the grazing manure. But prevention is most to be recommended, 



and that is effected by judicious cropping 



an 



d never suffering the land to become too 



exhausted : when this is faithfully perfornied, the Soft Brome will but seldom appear, or will 



poor or 



sooa 



b 



e overcome 



y 



by its more powerful neighbours. This grass, however, sometimes makes its appear. 

 ance on a sudden in lands that were before strangers to it, which is caused by its seed being 

 mixed with that of the grain or grass-seed used in sowing the land. It may therefore be worth 

 the notice of the Agriculturist to examine such seeds before they are committed to the soil. Th 

 specimens of seeds given in the Introduction, will enable lilm to detect the seed of the Soft 

 Brome, and other inferior grasses. 

 . It flowers about the middle of May, and ripens the seed about the first or second week of 



June. 



t 



I 



Festuca loliacea. Darnel-like Fescue. 



Specific character: Flowers collected into a 'spike ; spikets alternate, sitting, compressed 



awnless. 



Ohs, 



(^y 



closer inspection, the calyx, or outer husk, so conspicuous in the spikets of the ryc-m-ass, h 

 in the spikets of this grass almost wanting. The spikets are also arranged in a different 

 manner : in the rye-grass they stand facing the spike-stalk ; but in the Darnel-like Fescue, 

 they Stand with their back towards it. E. Bot. 1821; Curt. Lond.; Huds. 



^ ■ 



Native of Britain. Root fibrous. Perennial, 



Experiments. — At the time of flowering, the produce from a rich brown loam, is, 



4 



Grass, 24 oz. The produce per acre, 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry 



The produce of the space, ditto 



The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 



64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 



dr. qr 



oz, 



£Cl360 



lbs. 



16335 



35 



168 



114345 



7146 9 



3 



18 



1 



4 



12251 4 



x^ 



33 

 105 0^ 



71874 



The produce of the space, ditto 



At the time the seed is ripe, the produce is, 

 Grass, 16 oz. The produce per acre - - - . , ^ 174240 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when dry 

 The produce of the space, ditto 

 The weight lost by the produce of one acre in drying 

 64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 

 The produce of the space, ditto 



r 

 ^ 



The latter-math produce is. 

 Grass, 5 oz. The produce per aerie 

 64 dr. of grass afford of nutritive matter 



9188 7 

 765 11 







10890 



3 1 

 - 13 



- 8848 2 



4492 2 

 6397 14 



653 2 



1 1 



54450 

 1063 7 



3403 2 

 66 7 7 

 212 9 



The weight of nutritive matter which is lost by leaving the crop till the seed be ripe, is 



The proportional value which the grass, at the time the seed is ripe, bears to that at the time 

 of flowering, is as 13 to 12; and the grass of the latter-math stands in proportion to that at the 

 time of flowering, as 12 to 5, and to that at the time the seed is ripe, as 13 to 5. 



