436 
The Herhage of Old Graxs Lands. 
to yield excellent cheese, which made the highest price in tho 
district, but the produce has not been so good since the land 
was drained some ten years ago. The specimen had the ap- 
pearance of a light-brown loam resting on gravel. The herbage, 
cut on July 25, yielded the following results : — 
Gramineous herbage ■ . . , , . 88 1 
Leguminous herbage 6 ^ 100 
Miscellaneous herbage , 6 j 
The grasses were made up in the following proportions : — 
Lolium perenne . ■ . . . . . 86 
Phleum pratense ....... 10 
Holeus lanatus ....... 3 
Agrostis sp 1 
Alopecuruspratensisl, ^ ^^^^^ 
Foa. triviaus J 
The leguminous herbage was exclusively Trifolium repens, and 
the miscellaneous herbage Ranunculus repens. Of the three 
turfs, Nos. 21, 22, 23, the herbage of this was the greenest, the 
most homogeneous, and apparently the best. 
No. 24. — Tliis turf was made up of five sections drawn from 
five different fields in Romney Marsh, Kent, all fatting land. 
The specimens were sent by Mr. Alfred Hutchinson, of New 
Romney, Kent. The herbage, cut on July 23, contained : — 
VlOO 
Gramineous herbage 79 
Leguminous herbage ...... 21 
Miscellaneous herbage ...... 0 
The grasses comprised : — 
Lolium perenne ...... 07 
Avena flavescens 
Agrostis sp. 
Cynosurus cristatus 
I'oa trivialis 
■} » 
j> a trace 
100 
100 
The leguminous herbage consisted entirely of Trifolium repens. 
My observation on this herbage in the third week of June 
appears thus in my note-book : " Very good ; nearly all grass, 
some clover, no weeds." 
No. 25. — A turf sent by Mr. Thomas Nuttall, of Beeby 
]\Ianor, Leicester. This turf was cut from the famous Stilton 
cheese pastures in Leicestershire, and the specimen had the 
appearance of a stiff rich brownish clay, easily drying. The 
herbage was cut on July 30, and yielded the following results : — 
Gramineous herbage 58 
Leguminous herbage 42 100 
Miscellaneous herbage . , , , , . n trace, 
