THE GRASSES— HERD'S GRASS. 45 



to send out seeds of grasses that are no better than 

 noxious weeds. Even when the seed of the hand fide 

 Fiorin grass has been procured it is very difficult to get 

 it to grow. My Donegal correspondent writes : " I have 

 no faith in the seed of Fiorin, as I have seen it sown 

 and it never came to anything, but we plant the stems 

 and cover them lightly with earth." 



Again another correspondent writes : " I have tried 

 to raise it from seed, but have entirely failed to do so." 



According to the Wohurn experiments, the Fiorin grass 

 grown on an active peat soil, produced — 



A. At time of flowering, per acre . 

 Which yielded of hay, per acre . 



B. Yield at time of ripening its seed, per acre 



C. Further produce of Green Aftermath, per 



acre i 4 i 6 



D. Portion left uncut till December produced 



at rate of, per acre . . . .9216 



So as to give the reader an idea of the merits of the 

 other varieties of Agrostis, which are so commonly sold 

 as the true Piorin, the following is appended : — 



Herd's Grass, or Redtop of America. 



{Agrostis dispar.) 



Moeton's Encyclojpcedia says that, however suitable it 

 may be in comparatively warm climates for dry soils, 

 yet to the British grower it can only, like Agrostis 

 vulgaris, be recommended for the most barren and 

 worthless land. 



