POSTSCRIPT. 



A Friend who has been so good as to peruse the pre- 

 ceding pages, tells me, that I must not be content with 

 showing, as I have already done, how I myself came to 

 discover the value of fiorin grass; — but that it is incumbent 

 on me also to show, if I can, how it happened that this 

 same value came so long to escape the notice of man: — for 

 it is objected, and especially in England, that had this 

 agrostis really possessed such value, and was capable of 

 producing such luxuriant crops as I have stated it to be, it 

 must long ago have obtruded itself on the agriculturists who 

 paid any attention to the natural productions of their re- 

 spective soils ; the agrostis stolonifera being, as I have 

 asserted, found spontaneous in all soils and in all climates.- — 

 My friend also assures me, that, to his owri knowledge, this 

 objection has contributed more to encourage incredulity 

 on the subject of fiorin than any of the others so strenu- 

 ously urged. 



I have long ceased to notice the silly cavils against the 

 culture of fiorin, so often brought forward by hostile and 

 prejudiced ignorance ; but as I know my friend to be in- 

 fluenced by very different motives, I concur with him in 

 thinking, that my Imperial Pupil should be put on his guard, 

 and prepared with answers to arguments which, it appears, 

 have been so successfully urged. 



The question I am called upon to answer is, — How came 

 the great value of fiorin grass so long to escape the notice 

 of man? 



