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Splenic Apoplexy. 
Ou this farm, field No. 18, described as " tart land," is much out 
of condition from want of drainage. I would here note that most of 
these tart lands suffer for want of under drainage ; they are poor, 
hungry clays, on which manure is found not to exert the influence 
that might be expected, and, indeed, that it undoubtedly would do 
if preceded by draining. The following is a list of some of the 
observed plants to which I have attached numerals expressive of 
their quantities. This list and the successive ones, though not 
pretending to bo complete, is near enough for all practical purposes. 
In this field we have bad herbage in the ascendant. All the 
plants, including the mass of the grasses, show a mixed condition of 
poor land both wet and dry. Anything like good species of grasses 
are only just indicated, there being an occasional sprinkling of such, 
and little more than this of the clovers. 
The nest three meadows, namely : 
1st, No. 23 and 24. — " Higher Carey's Mead," now in hay; is 
better than No. 18. 
2nd, No. 28. — " Middle Carey's Mead," a low meadow flooded in 
winter ; mown for twenty-five years ; this year in pasture. 
3rd, No. 29. — " Lower Carey's Mead," much drier than No. 28 ; 
now in pasture. 
These three meadows are not tart, or, if so, it is only to a slight 
degree in the upper one. They differ much in quality ; the last 
■being much the best, arising partly from its being in a sounder 
state. 
Plants in Fields 28 and 29. 
Botanical Name. 
Trivial Name. 
Proportionals. 
No. 28. 
Ranunculus acris 
Trifolium pratense . 
, , repens 
Aira caespitosa . . 
Cyiiosurus cristatus 
Holcus lanatus . . 
Hordeum pratense 
Briza media 
Poa trivialis 
,, pratensis .. 
Festuca pratensis 
, , loliacea 
Bromus commutatus 
Lolium peri'iiiie 
Antlioxantlium odoratum 
Carices 
Junci 
Good herbage 
:1 
Upright buttercup 
Red clover 
Dutch clover 
Tussack grass 
Crested dogstail 
Woolly soft grass 
Meadow wild barley .. 
Quaking grass 
Rough-stalked meadow grass 
Smooth , , , , 
Meadow fescue, varieties .. 
Tumid field brome . . 
Kye grass 
Sweet vernal grass . . 
Sedges in the grips .. 
Rushes ,, 
20 
10 
3 
2 
10 
3 
6 
. 5 
4 
2 
3 
2 
2 
1 
6 
5 
3 
G 
4 
C 
3 
3 
3 
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2 
3 
5 
4 
15 
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