260 



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which is mealy, and of a dark colour, without any smell or taste; second, the mdv"^^ ^ ^ ^^'^^' 

 which is violet blue or blackish, and internally too has a blueish colour, ' a fotTd 'smell* ''^'''^"'' 

 sharp pungent taste. The first is the disease which attacks the grass now spoker^'^f ' ^'''^ " 



Bread 



made from grain affected with the last variety of the disease, or malignant clavus is of a bl 

 colour, and when eaten, produces cramps and giddiness. ' ° "^ ""^'^^ 



Flowers about the first and second weeks of July, and ripens the seed i 



afterwards. 



in three weeks 



M^mus PMladelphims. Philadelphian Lyme-grass. 



^ 



Specifii 



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Culm from two ,o five fee, high, smooth, round, of a light green or glaucous colour 

 J^eaves hroad mucronate, slightly rough, glaucous, spikets in pairs; awns of the calyx or 

 involucre, shorter than those of the florets. 

 E.pen^en.s.^Ax the time of flowering, the produce from a clayey loam and retentive suh- 



Grass, 45 oz. The produce per acre 



80 dr. of grass weigh, when drj, 



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 ^ .4 



The produce of the space, ditto ^ ' ^ 



qr. 



oz. 



490050 







lbs. 



30628 2 







40 

 360 







^t 



15314 1 

 15314 1 



47 3^ 



32542 6 



2033 14 6 



th '"*;""""'. K;-««'> we are informed this grass was first introduced into England by 

 the R,ght Hon. S,r J. Banks, Bart. K. B. in 1790, from North America. It is a very prodac- 

 ^va grass, and with respect to fohage, is rather early in the spring : it contains a cousideraUc 



quantity of nutritive matter. From the laro-e si^P it att • .i, j • 



+• „ 11 . , . ^^^® ^^^^ ^t attams, the produce is rank, and proper- 



form ? r;\" '? '"' •"'''""• '' "PP^™ "•»' f" -»-?. - hay to be used iu the 

 .2 f f' !?' " T" °*" "^ *" S'^'"""^ S----. ™-W 1"= P"fitable plants on soils 

 mfit for the production ofthe superior pasture grasses, or of corn ' ^ 



A comparison of the quantity of nutritive matter contained in hay of the best quality, with 



parltive vTe! '" " "' ™^'" °'"" '"^ "''" ''"-^ "''^ S™^»> ^" *'-■ "-■''• *^''' ~"- 



One pound of hay, composed of the best natiiv.1 • r • • .^ a 



One v.^ J n " . natural grasses, contains of nutritive matter 57 dr. 



Une pound of hay, composed of the Eh/mm PhU \i j i ■ . > , 



Witl, .. vo I . . . ^li/mus Fhiladelphicus, contains of nutritive matter 34 dr. 



With regard to nutritive powers, therefore, five ton, nf tt. 1, f i,- i ,.1 



tntTir«o+ c ^^ r. 1 ' "^*^ "^ons ot the hay of this grass, are scarcely equal 



to three tons of that of the superior erasses T{ . i ., / j 



others of tT.. 1 P oi grasses. But the soil that will produce this grass, and 



tito thet ""'''* ^''*^°'^^^*^^^^^ -uld not produce one-fifth the quan- 



y superior grasses, consequently, the adoption pf the Tall Fescue, and Philadelphian 



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