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gi'asses and clovers for three or four years' ley. The sowing 

 of Sainfoin alone is expensive, and more or less precarious. 

 When combined with strong-growing gi*asses there is less risk 

 of failure, and the grasses keep down weeds and prevent the 

 growth of couch and other pests which almost invariably over- 

 run a pure Sainfoin ley after the first two years. 



In the green state Sainfoin is quite free from the danger 

 of blowing cattle, and when made into hay it is an admirable 

 and nutritious food. But the making of Sainfoin hay is rather 

 a difficult business, particularly in catching weather. Like 

 Trifolium, the plant has a hollow stem, which when cut is 

 more quickly deteriorated by wet than any of the clovers. 



There are two varieties, the common, and the giant or 

 double cut, the latter being the earlier and more rapid-growing 

 of the two, but decidedly less durable. 



PETROSELINUM SATIVUM, or CARUM PETROSELINUM 



(Sheep's Parsley). 



Parsley is frequently included in mixtures of grasses for 

 uplands and sheep downs. Sheep manifest a great fondness 

 for the herbage, which has been said to be a preventive of 

 rot and red-water in that animal. Hares will visit gardens for 

 the sake of the Parsley gi-own in them, and where this game is 

 abundant it may be worth while to sow patches in the covers. 

 The seed germinates so slowly that six or seven weeks may 

 elapse before a plant is visible. 



POTERIUM SANGUISORBA 



(Bumety 



Burnet is a perennial, and a native of Britain. When 

 sown alone the coarse unpalatable herbage is declined by aU 

 kinds of stock unless pressed by hunger, but it is eaten when 



