54 PRACTICAL NOTES ON GRASSES AND GRASS GROWING. 
the first year or two before other grasses have established 
themselves, and the two oat grasses are included, as they have 
been found to be natural to the Holkham district.” 
So far as a five to six years’ ley is concerned, we entirely 
concur with the practical remarks his lordship has made, and 
by way of comment upon his table of selected seeds we would 
add a few observations of our own. 
We note that a prominence is given to meadow fescue, 
whilst foxtail, sheep’s fescue, and dogstail are ignored. Italian 
ryegrass, a biennial, also has a place, the reason for which 
would be hard to understand were it not for his lordship’s 
explanation ; but when it is remembered how this grass exhausts 
the land, starves and! smothers other seedlings, we rather 
doubt the wisdom of its insertion. Tall fescue we also think 
would be better omitted on account of its ergotty nature. 
The quantity of cocksfoot seems to us large, although, if the 
soil be very poor indeed, it would not perhaps be excessive. 
The mixture we have found to answer best for somewhat 
similar lands is the following :— 
Be Name. of germinating 
3 Hard fescue (Festuca duriuscula) ... .......... 66 1,525,000 
2 Cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata) ........::06ccececeee 809,000 
2 Meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis) ...........0008 462,000 
2 Foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis) .......:0sseserere ees 522,000 
2 Timothy (Phelum pratense) .........seseeeeeeeneees 2,500,c00 
2 Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) .. 420,000 
2 Trefoil (Medicago lupulina) .... , 620,000 
I Dogstail (Cynosurus cristatus) ..........00 cae 795,000 
I Sweet vernal (Anthaxanthum odoratum)......... 440,000 
I Tall oat grass (Avena elatior) ..........:c0eeees 115,000 
I Yellow oat grass (Avena flavensis) ...........60.5 840,0c0 
I Alsike clover (Trifolium hybridum) ..............+ 700,000 
I Perennial cow grass(Trifolium pretense perenne) 200,000 
1 White clover (Trifolium repens) ........ ceeeeeeee 710,000 
22 10,658,000 
