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Mr. Maetin J. Sutton says it affords very early feed 

 in spring, but its power of yielding late keep in autumn 

 is its most remarkable feature. It has been pastured 

 as late as the middle of December, and the herbage, if 

 allowed to remain till following spring, not deteriorated. 

 In wet seasons it overpowers other grasses, and its 

 creeping roots become almost as objectionable as Couch. 

 It is also very exhausting to the soil. 



Mr. Hunter says this grass is suitable for affording 

 a supply of herbage during winter and early spring 

 months when other grasses are dormant. The habit of 

 growth resembles the strawberry — long traUiag shoots 

 or stolons being produced during the autumn and winter 

 months. It thrives on all good soils, particularly those 

 that are wet ; also does well on peaty soils, but is not 

 suited to dry pastures. 



ISToTE. — As the Florin grass came at first prominently 

 into notice through the writings of Dr. Eichardson, 

 who had experience of it in the north-east of Ireland, 

 I thought it well to make some inquiries about it in 

 Ireland, and was referred by Professor Baldwin of 

 Dublin to a gentleman in Donegal, who farms some 

 reclaimed bog there on which a plantation of Tiorin 

 had been made by sowing pieces of the creeping stems 

 and covering lightly with soU. This gentleman reports 

 as follows :■ — " I believe it is an excellent grass for our 

 soil ; in fact, we could not raise anything like the same 

 quantity of any other kind of grass. My experience is 

 that newly-broken bog is the most suitable land for it. 

 I believe we have had as much as ten tons of hay per 

 acre (Irish), but this I consider an extra good crop, and 

 you wiU not have that quantity except for one or two 

 years on good land well manured." Wishing to see a 



