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other kinds of coarse hay being called stover, i. e. coarse stuff. It is also called white lead ,\ 

 ing of a white colour/ 



The nutritive matter of this grass contains a greater proportion of sugar than exists in a 

 of the superior pasture grasses. I oiFered a bundle of the grass to a horse that was grazing o 

 field of White Clover ; the animal ate it with seeming relish, taking a Lite of the Clover, a d 

 then another of the Poa aqiiatica, alternately, till the whole ,of it was consumed. It does 

 grow freely from seed, except when sown in mud. The best manner of propagating it, acco A 

 ing to my experience, is by planting the roots, which from their creeping nature, soon increas 

 the number of plants. The best season for sowing the seeds is in the autumn, as soon as th 

 are ripe. The roots may be planted in the autumn, or spring, with equal success. The R 



not 



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the results ! 



prove, that it may be cultivated on more elevated situations than has been supposed andtli 

 propagating it by planting the roots, is the best mode. 



Flowers about the second and third weeks of July, and the seed is ripe about the second 

 week of August. 



Eriophorum angustifoUum. Long-leaved Cotton-grass. 



Specific character: Culms almost three-cornered ; leaves channelled, three-sided; fruit-stalks 



smooth. E. Bot, 564 ; Flo. Germ. 



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0^^.— There are three species of Cotton-grass, which greatly resemble each other: the 



tifolium 

 a), diffc 



ifolkim 



culent culm ; the leaves longer and broader, with only one nerve of a reddish colour, and 



the fruit-stalks are smooth. It is distinguished from the Polystachion by its creeping roots ; 



leaves twice the length; involucre and sheaths smooth, spikets smaller; fruit-stalks shorter, 



and the woolly hairs everywhere longer. 

 Native of Britain. Root perennial. 

 Experiments.— kt the time of flowering, the produce from a bog soil, is. 



dr. 



Grass, 12 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 - 



qr. 



oz. 



lbs. 



130.680 



8167 8 



40 



65340 



4083 n 



4083 n 



The produce of the space, ditto 



% 2 

 7 2 



5104 11 



319 



On bogs and moors where this grass abounds, cattle crop the leaves in the spring; but as 

 soon as the finer kinds of grasses afford them a bite, they neglect it. There are many grasses of 



superior value, that succeed equally well on this kind of soil 



When 



lable 



(which 



the superior grasses, as the Meadow Fescue, Cock's-foot G 

 Meadow Fox-tail Grass, Rough-stalked Mead 



e effected, and the soil will then carry 



rass. 



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Grass, 



mically practised, the surface should be pared and bur 



ow-grass, &c. Where 



It, and after' 



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