PAET SECOIS^D. 



CHAPTER I. 



The Arfiflcial grasses, belonging mostly to tlie Leg- 

 uminosa or Pulse Family of plants cultivated and 

 used both, in a green and dried state as food_for the 

 domestic animals. _ 



In the preceding pages the most valuable species 

 of the true grasses belonging to the natural order 

 graminae have received our careful attention. We 

 now enter upon a description of another class of 

 plants called the Artificial grasses, which are 

 equally deserving especial consideration. 



The Artificial grasses have been cultivated over 

 two centuries in England. Red clover is supposed 

 to have been grown as a field crop since 1633. In 

 this country; the introduction and cultivation of Red 

 clover dates from 1770, about that time a small quan- 

 tity of red clover seed reached Philadelphia, and was 

 sown in gardens, and on pasture lots in the neigh- 

 borhood of the city. In 1773, Mr. James Vaux, of 

 Flatland Ford, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, un- 

 eble to procure on this side the Atlantic, a sufficient 

 quantity of this seed for his purpose, obtained a 



