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unteach'mg fuch as had already acquired bad habits, and an 

 incorreft and vicious manner of playing. 



Timotheus died in Macedonia, according to Suidas, at 

 the age of ninety-feven ; though the Marbles, much better 

 authority, fay at ninety ; and Stephen of Byzantium fixes 

 his death in the fourth year of the 105th Olympiad, two 

 years before the birth of Alexander the Great ; whence it 

 appears that tliis Timotheus was not the famous player on 

 the flute fo much cileemed by that prince, who was ani- 

 mated to fuch a degree by his performance, as to feize his 

 arms ; and who employed him, as Athenseus informs us, to- 

 gether with the other great muficians of his time, at his 

 ' nuptials. However, by an inattention to dates, and by for- 

 getting that of tliefc two muficians of the fame name, the 

 one was a Milefian, and the other a Theban, they have been 

 hitherto almoft always confounded. 



TIMOTHY, a favourite difciple and companion of 

 St. Paul, was the fon of a Jewefs by a Greek father, at 

 Lyftra in Ifauria. He Was the confidential aflbciate and 

 •friend of St. Paul, and he addrelTed to him two epiftles. 

 (See Epistle.) According to the Roman martyrology, he 

 was ftoned to death at one of the fellivals of Diana at 

 Ephefus. 



Timothy Grafs, in jlgncuhur^, the common name of a 

 grafs which is faid to be cultivated much in America. The 

 feeds are faid to have been carried from the ftate of Virginia, 

 by Mr. Timothy Hanfon, to that of North Carolina, where 

 it is much grown, and from which circumilance it probably 

 received its name. It is a fort of grafs which thrives 

 moll: in low, damp, marfliy grounds; in fuch foils and fitua- 

 tions, it will produce a fine turf in a Ihort time. It is very 

 luxuriant, grows to a confiderable height, and has, in fome 

 fort, the appearance of wheat or rye, having a broad blade 

 or leaf. 



It may be noticed, that all forts of cattle are faid to be 

 fond of it whilfl in the green growing ftate, as well as in that 

 of hay. 



It is very produAive, but coarfe, and flowers late. Almoft 

 all the agriculturalifts and travellers of America concur in 

 giving this grafs the higheft commendations, as being the 

 chief fupport of cattle wherever meadows are found. And 

 from the inquiries made by Mr. Strickland, at the requeft of 

 the Board of Agriculture, it appears to be extenfively cul- 

 tivated in the middle and northern ftates of the American 

 union ; he has frequently feen extraordinary crops of it 

 growing as thickly as it could ftand on the ground, three or 

 four feet high, and in fome inftances as eoarfe as wheat- 



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ftraw. In this ftate it is cut before maturity j and as the 

 hay in America is always well cured, however fucculent it 

 may be, at the time of cutting, horfes prefer it to every 

 other kind of liay, and thrive better upon it. 



No other graflcs approach it in produce ; and it is ftatcd 

 to be particularly uieful when mixed with red clover, in 

 preventing it from falling too clofe to the ground. And 

 fince his return, by cultivating it in his garden lie has afcer- 

 tained it to be the fame as the cat's-tail grafs ; but he is 

 doubtful vvlietlier, if it were cultivated in the field, and 

 fliould grow with American luxuriance, an Enghfli fun 

 would be able to cure it with American perfedion. It has, 

 however, been faid by Curtis, that it has no excellence that 

 we are acquainted with, wliich the meadow fox -tail grafs does 

 not poflefs in an equal degree. In the trials made by the 

 Rev. Mr. Young of keeping it clofely fed down by (heep, 

 upon a moift loam with a clayey marie bottom, the fuccefs 

 was fufficiently encouraging to evince that it is deferviiig 

 of attention ; efpecially as its feeds may be eafily procured 

 in any quantity from America at the price of about one 

 guinea the bufliel ; which, he obferves, is enough, in con- 

 junction with that of other grafles, for four or five acres of 

 land. He thinks four pounds, the proportion for the acre 

 as fixed by Rocque, who firft introduced it into this country, 

 are much too httle ; and is of opinion, that timothy is 

 beft adapted to moift loams, efpecially thofe of the peaty 

 kinds. 



It is faid to be common in the dairy paftures of Chefhire, 

 by the writer of the Agricultural Report of that county, 

 but that, although it has been ftrongly recommended for 

 cultivation, it feems by no means to merit the high charac- 

 ter which was, at one time, given it. In moift lands or 

 foils it grows tolerably well ; but in all cafes and kinds of 

 land, it is thought much inferior to the meadow fox-tail, 

 and the fmooth-llalked meadow-grafs. In a paper in the 

 third volume of tlie " Tranfaftions of the Highland Society 

 of Scotland," the feed of this grafs is put down as ufeful in 

 a mixture for one crop of hay, to be fucceeded by pafturc, 

 in land of the clay kind. And that, in thefe circumftances, 

 late and csarfe as it is, it may be beneficial in fuch fort of 

 land, as it is in fome degree congenial to it. 



The experiments, however, lately made at Woburn Abbey, 

 under the direflion of his grace the duke of Bedford, the 

 refults of which are detailed in an appendix to a late work 

 on " Agricultural Chemiftry," place its comparative merits 

 in the ftrongert and moft certain point of view. It is there 

 ftated, that, at the time of flowering, from a clayey loam : 



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The produce per acre is ..... 



Weight when dry of produce of fame fpace 

 Weight loft by produce of fame fpace in drying 

 Weight of nutritive matter afforded by fame - - 

 Weight of nutritive matter, loft by leaving the crop till the feed be"! 

 ripe, exceeding one half of its value - - - 1 



At the time the feed is ripe : 



Produce per acre ...... 



Weight when dry of produce of fame fpace ... 

 Weight loft by produce of fame fpace in drying 

 Nutritive matter afforded by produce of fame fpace 

 Latter-math, produce per acre .... 



Affords of nutritive matter . . . - 



Sixty -four drachms of the ftraws, afford feven drachms of ing, to that at the time the feed is ripe, as 10 to 23 ; and 

 nutritive matter. The nutritive powers of the ftraws the latter-math to the grafs of the flowering crop, as 

 limply, therefore, it is faid, exceed thofe of the leaves, in 8 to 10. 



proportion of 28 to 8; and the grafs at the time of flower- From the wliole of thcfe particulars, the comparatri-e 



merits 



