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trusion of rivals, crowdiog upon and interfering with the 

 growth of our florin. 



Our natural grassy soles may be considered as of three 

 descriptions ; — that covering rich low grounds, juoor, 

 sour low grounds, and green inountain; each assumed to 

 be suflSciently deep. 



In ricA low grounds^ our attempts to give florin the 

 exclusive possession would be vain, the rush of obtruding 

 rivals being quite irresistible. 



In cold, sour, loiv lands, we have a better chance of 

 succeeding, because the change we must operate on the 

 soil, will be injurious to the rivals in possession, and we 

 may be able to weed out new intruders. 



It was upon such soil I succeeded so well in the instance 

 I have mentioned, where the Earls of Caledon and 

 GosFORD were so good as to witness my proceedings. 



Of all low grounds, Jlat, inoist, green, peat moss, is best 

 adapted to the production of spontaneous florin meadows ; 

 for, in addition to the change we must make from wet to 

 dry, peaty soil is congenial to florin, and unfavourable to 

 its rivals, and it affords an inexhaustible source of manure, 

 more agreeable to this grass than any other, PEAT ashes. 



Mountains are the true field for raising valuable crops 

 of spontaneous meadow : our agrostis is already in predo- 

 minant possession of all verdant high elevations in our own 

 mountains ; and few efforts will be required to give it the 

 exclusive possession, as very few of its rivals are enabled 

 by nature to sustam alpine severities; while florin is proved 

 to luxuriate equally on the top of the mountain, and bottom 

 of the valley. The declivities too of the surface, make 

 drainage an easy task, and in all the mountains of our 

 islands, peaty soil is predominant. 



The metropohs of Ireland is contiguous to an immense 

 area of mountain, admirably adapted to improvement by 



