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and in luxuriance, on the spot, in the very soils, and at the 

 elevations, where I mean to give it the exclusive posses- 

 sion, he will, I hope, repress the smile, and suspend his 

 opinion, awaiting- for the result, which will enable him to 

 decide upon the feasibility of my schemes, and also to pro- 

 nounce whether the measures by which success has been 

 obtained under his eye, be so light in expense, as to admit 

 of being readily and generally adopted. The sites I 

 allude to, and the measures to be pursued, shall be pointed 

 out minutely, and in detail, when I shall have reason to 

 expect that experiments will be tried on them. 



I hope my zeal for the interests of my own country, and 

 my wish to see its improv_ement commenced on the field 

 where I am most secure of success, and where the produce 

 I can raise is most wanted, will plead my excuse for this 

 digression. 



I shall now, for the information of his Imperial Highness, 

 proceed to give some account of the original discovery 

 of the value of this so long neglected grass, — of the order 

 in which its several strange qualities burst upon me in 

 succession, — my reasons for giving up some uses of it, 

 from which I once had formed high expectations ; — with 

 the increased estimation in which I hold others, having ten 

 years' experience of the durability of this grass, and the 

 pertinacity with which it continues its luxuriance under 

 proper management ;— and finally, the facility of its cul- 

 ture and propagation in our wildest regions, where every 

 attempt to cultivate any other vegetable would be quite 

 vain. 



My discovery of the great value, and strange properties 

 of fiorin grass, was not accidental; the value and pro- 

 perties of the several varieties of the grassy tribe, were 

 the objects I was in pursuit of; and my discovery of those 

 of the AGROSTis STOLONIFERA, (Irish Jior in) was the 



