if/^ The S^tural H'tfiory 
ov EverlafUng-grafs ; but according to Dr. Mori/o;?, the true Lm- 
cern^ now every where known, and therefore nothing concern- 
ing the qualities and advantages of //.) They have lately fown 
Ray-grafs^ or the Gramen Loliaceum^ by which they improve any 
cold^ four ^ claji -weeping gxound^ for which it is beft, but good aU 
fo for dryer up -land grounds , efpecially light ftonj, or fandy 
Land, which is unfit for SainSf-foin. 
32. It was firft fown (as 1 was told) in the Chiltern parts of 
Oxford-fhire^ and fince brought nearer Oxford by one Mr Eufiace^ 
an ingenious Husband-man of Iflip^ who though at firft laught at, 
has been iince followed even by thofe very perfons that fcorn'd 
his Experiment^ it having precedence of all other ^rj^^, in that 
it takes almoft in all forts of poor Land, endures the drought of 
Summer beft, and in the Springis the carlyeft grafs of any, and 
cannot at that time be over-ftock'd its being kept down making 
it fweeter, and better beloved by Cattle than any other grafs : 
Nay, fomtimes they have been known to leave Meddow hay to feed 
on thi^ : but of all other Cattle it is beft for Horfes^ it being hard 
Hay ; and for Sheep^ if unfound, it having been known by expe- 
rience to have work'd good cures on them^ and in other refpefts 
the beft Iflnter gv^[s that grows. 
33. As to the manure it, fome fow but two bufiels on the 
Statute Acre, but 'tis beft to fow three, mixt with the ^ri/o/iMw 
agrarium Lkidondei, c^Wtd Melilot- trefoil^ and fomtimes Non-fuch^ 
becaufe of it felf it is but a thin fpiry ^r^y?, and will not be of« 
any bulk the firft year, unlefs thickned by the Trefoil^ which fail- 
ing by degrees, the Ray or hennet-gtafs (fo fome alfo call it) 
thickens upon it, and lafts for ever. Of Raj-grafs and Trefoil 
thusmix'd together, one at I/Iip but lately had fo advantagious 
a crop^ that from four Statute Acres, worth not above forty JhiU 
lings per annum ; befide the keeping fix or eight cattle till holy 
Ihurfday^ and the feeding all the Winter following, had twenty 
Quarters of Seed worth twenty pounds, and fourteen loads of 
fodder^ enough to winter five or fix cattle, 
34. The fcenum Burgundiacum caeruleum VObelii^ or Medica legi- 
tima Clufiiist Dc^/(9;7^i,commonly called Lucern.^ but by the Learn- 
ed Dr. Morifon faid to be the true Sain^-join^ is alfo fown here, 
and found to agree well enough with a rich moiji ground, but bet- 
ter by much in a warm and dry foil. This ftands recommended 
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