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Report of Experiments with different Manures 
Experiments with Different Manure 
Table IX. — Showing the Desci'iption and Proportions of the Different kinds c 
DESCRIPTION OF THE HERBAGE. 
PER-CENTAGE AMOUNTS OF EACH 
Unma- 
nured. 
(Plot 1.) 
Artificial Manures. 
Botanical Names. 
Common Names. 
Ammo- 
niacal 
Salts 
alone. 
(Plot 4.) 
" Mixed 
Mineral 
Manure." 
(Plot 8.) 
" Mixed 
Mineral 
Manure" 
and Am- 
moniacal 
Salts. 
(Plot 10.) 
" Mixed 
Mineral 
Manure 
and 
double 
quantity 
Ammoni 
acal Salts 
(Plot 13. 
1. — Graminaceous Herbage; Steii 
Loliura perenne .... 
Ifi-77 
14-73 
23-39 
32-23 
12-10 
Woolly soft-grass, or Yorkshire Fog. 
14'02 
14-43 
6-94 
32-C4 
26-37 
Arrliaer.atlierum avenaceum 
Fibrous-rooted, tall oat-like grass 
6-04 
3-27 
9-07 
4-84 
2-D6 
Anthoxanthum odoratum . 
Sweet-scented vernal grass .... 
5M3 
0-41 
1-01 
0-09 
Agrostis vulgaris . . . | 
Common or creeping-rooted bent- 1 
grass, also black switch, ice. . / 
4*82 
2-07 
0-97 
0-41 
0-03 
roi 
1-48 
2-16 
Cynosurus cristatus . . • 
l-IO 
0-05 
0-39 
0-05 
Dactylis glomerata . . . 
Avena pralensis .... 
Smootii-stalked meadow grass* . . 
Soft or downy brome-grass • . , 
1-64 
0-34 
1-33 
20-17 
0- 'io 
1- 57 
00 '25 
3S-91 
42-18 
72-66 
C5-08 
Leafy produce— Irom woolly soft-gra^s 
Coarse leaf, i^cc.— some bent-grass; probably also cock's-foot, soft) 
brome-grass. and ot hers - J 
Middlinc: leaf— chiflly bent -grass : some meadow oat-grass, &c. . , 
Fine leaf. &c.— unknown ; possibly some Festuca bromoides, or 1 
barren fescue-grass « J 
Dead leaves and stems 
Total 
3-41 
12-28 
5-46 
4-06 
15'35 
8-78 
11-46 
1-79 
6-64 
3-93 
3-41 
8-18 
14-33 
4-43 
7-81 
16-37 
5-82 
2-58 
1-18 
2-44 
4-91 
2-24 
7-01 
11-81 
20 '85 
53-20 
29-64 
24-72 
32-27 
3. — Lpiruniinov 
Lathyrus pratensis . . . 
Yellow or meadow vetchling . . . 
2-07 
2-20 
4-53 
Lotus corniciilatus . • . 
Common bird's-foot tretbil .... 
1-83 
0-45 
Trilblium pnitense perenne+ 
1-22 
17-91 
5-12 
2-20 
22 -(<9 
4. — IMiscellaueous Herbagi 
10-79 
1-71 
0-41 
0-78 
0-09 
0-28 
1-34 
3-58 
0-48 
0-28 
0-59 
0-07 
1-02 
0-23 
0-88 
1-08 
0-61 
0-49 
1-13 
0-12 
0-22 
0-32 
15-73 
6.14 
1-71 
1-85 
1-67 
Plantago lanccolata . 
Carum carui . . . 
Achillira milU^folinm 
Kumcx acctosa . . . 
Silene 
Ranunculus! . . . 
I,a7.ula campestriH . . 
Veronica chanuL'ilrys . 
Galium verum . . . 
• { 
Uib-grass or plantain 
Common caraway . . 
Common milfoil or yarrow, , , . 
Sheep's sorrel or dock 
Catchfly * . . 
Crow-foot 
Field wood-rush 
(iermnnder speedwell 
Common yellow-llowered bed-slraw, 1 
or cheese rennet j 
Total 
• M'ith some Ajrostis, 
t Will) some T, rcjKiis on Plot 
