f* The- common yellow vetchling, "Lathyrus prattnfts, or everlafting-tare, might likewife be on many occafions 

 M cultivated with profit by the farmer. It grows with great luxuriance in ftiff clayey foils, and continues to yield 

 M aximially for any length of time, a great weight of forage, which is deemed to be of the very beft quality : and 

 M as it is equally fit for pafture or for hay, the farmer would have it in his power to apply it to the one or the 

 M oth.er of thefe ufes, at any period that might beft fuit his convenience.- — It is likewife attended with this far- 

 I* ther advantage, that as it continues to grow with equal vigour in the end of fummer as in the beginning 

 fi thereof, it would admit of being paftured upon in the fpring, till the middle or even the end of May, ftiould 

 ^ it be peceffary ; without endangering the lofs of the crop of hay : which cannot poffibly be done with rye r grafs 

 ** or any other plant ufualfy cultivated by the farmer, except clover ; which is equally unfit for early pafture or 



for hay. This plant would be the more valuable to the farmer that it grows to the greateft perfection on fuch 



f« not only an abiding plant, which never leaves the ground where it has been once eftablifhed ; but that it alfo 

 " increafes fo faft by its running roots, that a very few plants at firft put into a field, would foon fpread over the 

 t c whole and flock it Sufficiently. If a fmall patch of good ground is fowed with the feeds of this plant in 

 fi rows about a foot diftant from one another, and the intervals be kept clear of weeds for that feafon, the 

 ^ roots will fpread fo much as to fill up the whole patch next year ; when the ftalks may be cut for green fodder 

 , 6 ' or for hay. And if that patch were dug over in the fpring following, and the roots taken out with the hand, 

 t* it would furnifli a great quantity of plants, which might be planted in fuch fields as you meant to have filled 

 " with this, at the diftanee of two or three feet a-part ; which would probably there take root, and quickly 

 *' cverfpread the whole field. And as there might always be a fufficient quantity of the roots left to fill again 

 *' the patch from whence they were taken, it would be ready to furnjfn a frefh fupply the next feafon, and 

 ^ might thus continue to ferve as a nurfery for ever afterwards. It appears to me,' that this would be the molf 

 ** likely method of propagating this plant with eafe ; but I have not as' yet had Sufficient experience thereof to 

 p be able either to tell precifely the expence of it, or to anfwer pofitively for the fuccefs thereof in all cafes." 



