378 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



which is cultivated for its yellow colour, was in several 

 places drawn up root and all, bound in small sheaves, 

 Karfvar, which were set one against another in the 

 fields to dry, in the same way as we do with Hemp and 

 Flax. Its seeds were still not much more than half ripe. 

 It grew here wild, in places abundantly, in other places 

 it was expressly planted. 



The gth July, 1748. 



Angar. The low places in Kent which at high water 

 lay below the level of the water in the river Thames, 



were divided into meadows and pastures 



[T. II. p. 13.J 



No trees grew on these lowland 



meadows, but instead of hedges or other fences around 

 them, there were deep dikes about a fathom wide, which 

 now stood nearly full of water. 



Arundo Vulgaris Palustris J.B., the Reed [Phragmites 

 communis] and Scirpus 39 [S. Maritimus] or the Sea-rush, 

 hafssav, grew in the greatest abundance in these dikes 

 and were considered very good fodder. 



The kinds of grass of which the plants on these 

 meadows principally consisted, were Alopecurus culmo 

 erecto 52. [A pratensis], Gramen Secalinum pratense 

 elatius (Morison) [Hordeum Secalinum] and Aira 67 syn. 

 Gramen lanatum (Dalech) [Holcus Mollis]. 



These here formed the finest, thickest, and most 

 luxuriant grass sward that anyone could wish to have on 

 his meadow. It was now being mown here with all 

 diligence. The pastures were divided into man}' parts, 

 so that when the cattle went for one week on one pas- 

 ture, the grass was growing in two or three others, where 

 the cattle had been before : and when the cattle had been 

 here one week, they were moved to the pasture which at 

 the last change had been longest free from their bait. 



