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GRASSES AND OTHER PLANTS USED IN FARMING. 
The following are selected as the most important and valuable 
plants used in rural economy; the grasses and other plants culti- 
vated for their foliage, are particularly such as have been found to 
merit attention; a knowledge of their true names is the first step 
towards obtaining them, and when obtained it is of serious import- 
ance to cultivate each sort in the soil and situation best adapted to 
its nature, which is carefully pointed out in the following list. 
The judicious cultivation of grasses, though the least expensive 
and most profitable part of husbandry (for on it every other part 
may be said to depend) has hitherto been too much neglected by the 
generality of our farmers, and in this they have been blind to their 
best interests. 
In order to be successful, a farmer should endeavour to procure 
and cultivate such grasses and other vegetable productions as are 
peculiarly adapted to the various soils of which his plantation is 
composed; so that every spot, from the dry est hill to the wettest 
swamp, may be employed in yielding him profitable productions. 
Those marked thus * are indigenous, or native plants of the 
United States; and such as are marked thus t, of the West Indies 
and warmer parts of America. 
GRASSES. 
*Brome, Purging 
Barnet, Field 
*Blue 
Canary. Reedy 
Clover, Red 
White 
Yellow 
♦Cock's-foot, Swamp 
^Canadian, Reedy 
Dog's-tail 
Fox-tail, Meadow 
Fiorin 
*Fescue, Flote 
*Tall 
*Meadow 
*Green 
tGuinea (a) 
*Herd 
Lucern 
Meadow, Rough stalked 
Soft 
Water 
♦Creeping 
*Smooth-stalked 
*Five nerved 
Medic, Yellow 
Hop 
Oat, Tall Meadow 
Yellow 
♦Orchard 
tPeruvian (h) 
Bromus purgans {wet soil) 
Potermni Sanguisorba {dry good soil) 
Poa covipressa (dry fields) 
Phalaris arundinacia {wet soil) 
Trifolium pratense {moderately dry) 
repens {rich d.ry soil) 
ochroleucum {dry ground) 
Dactylis Cynosuroides {stoamps) 
Cinna arimdinacea {moist soil) 
Cynosurus cristatus {dry ground) 
Alopecurus pratensis {moist soil) 
Agrostis stolonifera {wet or moist soil) 
Fesluca fiuitans {swamps) 
elatoir {moderatclii moist) 
pratensis {moderately dry) 
Poa viridis {rich- and tolerably moist) 
Panicum maximum {strong toarm soil) 
Agrostis stricta {wet or moist soil) 
Medicago sativa {a rich, dry sandy loam) 
Poa trivialis {moist soil) 
Holcus lanatus {moist soil) 
Poa aquatica {sivamp) 
Poa stolonifera {tvei) 
Poa praMnsis {dry soil) 
Poa nervata {wet) 
Medicago falcata. {dry soil) 
lupulhm 
Avena elatior {moderately dry) 
jlavcsccns {good dry ground) 
Dactylis glomcrala {orchards and mode- 
rately dry meadow) 
Paspalium stonoUfcrum 
(a)This grass isbymuch too tender to bear the winter frosts of the middle or eastern 
states, but succeeds well in Georgia, and in the warmest parts of South Carolina. 
(6) This is nearly as tender as the preceding, and therefore not answerable foi the 
