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Crested dogVtai], (Cynosurus cristatus) -. r, ' » ^ 1 bushel 



Nerved meadow-grass, (Poa nervata) -, - - - - .. 0^ ditto 



Wood meadow-grass, (Poa nemoralis) - - - ^ - .. ^^ ^^^^^ 



Narrow-leaved Meadow-grass, (Poa angustifoUa) - - - - 0^ ditto 

 Broad-leaved creeping bent, or fiorin, (Agrostis stolonifera, var. latifolia) - O-^ ditto 



Eje-grass, (Lolium perenne) . - - -, . - 1 ditto 



'White or Butch clover, (Trifolium prate7ise) - . , ^ 2^ 11^^ 



Bush vetch, (vicia sepiumj - -- - _ -O-bhl 



Sweet-scented vernal-grass, ( AnthomntJmm odoratum) - - . Qi ji^.^^ 



Perennial red clover, (TrifoUim medium) ^ - - _ - 12 lbs. 



The larger seeds should be mixed by themselves ; and, in the same manner, the smaller 

 seeds should be mixed together, and sown after the mixture of larger seeds, as they require 

 much less covering. 



I have sown the seeds of the same grasses in every month of the year, January excepted, 

 j| and though much depends on the weather and the state of the ground, the results were alwayl 

 in favour of the month of August; and, next to that, the middle or latter end of May, accord- 

 ing as the weather was dry. The seeds vegetated, and grew with most vigour under the fol- 

 lowing circumstances : when the ground had been deeply stirred, broken very fine, and made 

 perfectly smooth and compact on the surface with a heavy roller, previous to sowing the seeds; 

 and, at the time of sowing, the ground in a dry state, the seeds sown on this fine, dry, com- 

 pact surface ; the larger seeds not more than just covered, by drawing a fine rake on the level 

 surface, and afterwards sowing the small seeds, and covering them no farther than what was 

 effected by a repetition of the roller. The results further shewed, that, next to a coarse, inconso- 

 lidated or loose surface, the practice of deep sowing was, in the second degree, more injurious to 

 the vegetation of the seeds, and the first progress of the plants, than any other error that could 

 be made in the manual part of the process of sowing the natural grasses on a soil of good quality. 

 When land is to be sown down for permanent pasture, no admixture of any annual or grain 

 crop, or Broad-leaved Clover, should be admitted with the grass-seeds. Experience will 

 prove that they are highly injurious to the intention of speedily forming a solid productive 

 sward; and that the profit that may accrue from a grain crop thus obtained, will be much over- 

 balanced by the loss of grass in the two following seasons. Every plant of these annual crops 

 occupies a place to the detriment of the expected sward; besides rendering the surface porous 

 by the decay of their roots in the end of autumn, much mischief, likewise, is done to the sward 

 by portions of the crops being beat down with heavy rains. The above mixture should be 

 sown in the autumn or spring, at the rate of four and a half bushels to the acre. If sown in 

 spnug, it will be found highly useful in the following autumn, to give the surface a slight 

 top-dressing with rotten dung or compost, in which the seeds, or roots of weeds, are not sus- 

 pected, and to sow immediately after half a bushel, more or less, of the mixture of seeds, accord- 

 ing as the sward appears to be deficient of plants ; after which, (the top-dressing being previ- 

 ously well reduced by a slight bush-harrow), the roller should be liberally used; and rollmg 

 for the first two years, should never be neglected at any favourable opportunity. If the seeds 

 are sown in autumn, the top-dressing, re-sowing, and rolling, will be found equally requisite 

 and beneficial in the following month of May, and even if repeated in the following autumn, 

 they will greatly forward the intention. This is imitating the process of Nature in forming pas- 



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