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by taking the place of the Ryegrass where this is worn out. 

 What we have said here of the usefulness of certain Natural 

 Grasses, which are non-tuft forming varieties, but spread them- 

 selves by their capacity of shooting forth subterraneously their 

 roots, thus creating merely for beauty's sake that even turf, applies, 

 though for an other reason, with the same vigour to their use for 

 pasture-lands and meadows. 



Castle ''Rosendael". 



For, if the great aim to be reached for the former is to have a 

 fine, even plot of grass, that in view for the latter is to derive the 

 greatest possible production of the very best quality of nutritive 

 grasses. And whilst the nutritive value of nearly all the Natural 

 Grasses surpasses that of the Ryegrasses, sometimes even very 

 much indeed, they tend at the same time to cover the soil far 

 more thickly than the latter are capable of doing. Now, it need 

 scarcely be said here, that the more thickly the land is covered 

 by grass-plants of whatever variety these are, the greater will be 

 the quantity of either grass or hay yielded. 



