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comparatively nothing duriiig the rest of the season ; and unless the culmns are mown previous 

 to ripening the seed, the ground is much impoverished by it. 



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Hard fescue, (Festuca duriuscula)^ early attains to maturity; the culmS are succulent and nu- 

 tritious, grows quickly after being cropped, and springs pretty early; but it is very deficient in 

 the weight of produce. 



Meadow fescue, f Festuca pratensis)^ is very productive and nutrient, but does not spring 

 sufficiently early, and seldom attains to perfect maturity in two years. 



Tall oat-like soft-grass, (HokuS avenaceusj, attains to maturity from seed in a very short 

 space of time. It is very early and productive in the spring, and during the whole season, 

 grows rapidly after cropping, and the cuhns are succulent. The produce, however, is very de- 

 ficient of nutritive matter, which contains an excess of the bitter extractive and saline principles. 



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Yellow oat-grass, CAvenaJiavescens), arrives soon at perfection; the produce is tolerably nu- 

 tritive, but deficient in quantity. 



Rough-stalked meadow-grass, (Poa trivialis), early attains to maturity; the produce is 

 highly nutrient, but likewise deficient in weight. 



The produce 



Smooth-Stalked meadow-grass, (Poa pratensis), is early, and rather nutritive, 

 tively unproductive. The creeping roots unfit it for introduction on arable lands, 



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Crested dog s-tail, (Cynosurus cristatiisj, is backward in arriving at maturity, 

 is very nutritive, but wanting in weight. 



Fertile meadow-grass, CPo(^ fertilise soon attaint to maturity ; the produce is highly nu- 

 tritlve, but comparatively deficient iii quantity. 



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Nerved meadow-grass, fPoa nervata), is productive, very nutritive, and afFords an abun- 

 dance of early foliage ; but it does not attain to its full productive povrers in tvFO years. 



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Narrow-leaved meadow-grass, (Poa angustifoUa) , is greatly superior to the Smooth-stalked 

 Meadow-grass in early growth, produce, nutrient properties, and reproductive powers; but, 

 unfortunately, it possesses a strong creeping root, which exhausts the soil, and renders it inad- 

 missible on arable lands. 



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co„,mended it for cultivation ; but its productive and nutrient properties are very inferior to n>any other plants equally adapted 

 to light soils. Linn^us says, that its properties are vulnerary and styptic. An essential oil is extracted from the flowers. 61 dr 

 of the leaves and stems cut when in flower, (June 26), afforded 98 grains of nutritive matter. 



. An ointment made of the leaves is reckoned good against the scab in sheep. There is every reason to beheve, that Yarrow 

 is only useful as a part of the food of cattle, in a medicinal pdint of view. 



Chicory, Succory. (CicUorium int',,us). This plant is common on the borders of corn-fields, and poor gravelly soils The cul- 



tivated vaHety was first pointed out as a pfant for cultivation, in this country, by Arthur Young, Esq. who brought he seed 



rom France in 1788. In some instances, it appears by Mr. Young, experiments, to be more producUve than Lucern, ^Annas 



;i«0 Succory has broad succulent leaves, and the stems become hard with age ; it . therefore unfit to be made 



1 h r 80 d of the herbage lost in drying 52 dr. which shews it is more difiicult to make into good hay than the clov.s. 



T quLi y of : edrequired sow one a r.' is thirteen pounds, but a good deal depends on the richness of the so.l. It requires 



to be sown in drills. 



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7il of the herbage, cut previous to the time of flowering, afforded 60 grains of nutritive matter. 



