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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 cultiva- 
ted 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 impor- 
tance, 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 dryest 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, f, of the West Indies 
and warmer parts of America. 
GRASSES. 
*Brome, Purging 
Barnet, Field 
*Blue 
Canary, Reedy- 
Clover, Red 
White 
Yellow 
"Cocks-foot, Swamp 
*Canadian, Reedy 
Dogs-tail 
Fox-tail, Meadow 
Fiorin 
*Fescue, Flote 
*Tall 
*Meadow 
* Green 
■{"Guinea («) 
*Herd 
Lucern 
Meadow, Rough stalked 
Soft 
Water 
*Creeping 
*Smooth stalked 
*Five nerved 
Bromus purgans Qzvet soil) 
Poterium Sanguisorba {dry good soift 
Poa compressa {dry fields) 
Phalaris arundinacia {wet soil) 
Trifolium pratense {moderately dry) 
repens {rich dry soil) 
ochroleucum {dry ground) 
Dactylis Cynosuroides (swamps) 
Cinna arundinacea {moist soil) 
Cynosurus cristatus {dry ground) 
JLlopecnrns pratensis {moist soil) 
Jlgrostis stolonifcra {wet or moist soil) 
Pestucafiuitans {swamps) 
ehtiior {moderately moist) 
pratensis {moderately dry) 
Poa viridis {rich and tolerably moist) 
Panicum maximum {strong warm soil) 
,/lgrostis stricta {wet or moist soil) 
JSledicago saliva {a rich, dry sandy loam) 
Poa trixrialis {moist soil) 
Hole us lanatus {moist soil) 
Poa aquatica {swamp) 
Poa stolonifcra {wet) 
Poa pratensis {dry soil) 
Poa nervata {wet) 
(a) This grass is by much too tender to bear the winter frosts of the middle ot 
eastern states, but succeeds well in Georgia, and in the warmest parts of South 
Carolina. 
