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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 tor 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, t? of the West Indies 
and warmer parts of America. 
GRASSES. 
•Brome, Purging 
Barnet, Field 
*Blue 
Canary, Reedy 
Clovei', Red 
W'liite 
Yellow 
*Cocks-foot, Swamp 
*Canadian, Keedy 
Dogs-tail ' 
Fox-tail, Meadow 
Fiorin 
*Fescue, Flote 
*Tail 
*Meadow 
* Green 
■j-Guinea (fi) 
•Herd 
Lucern 
]Meadow, Rough stalked 
Soft 
Water 
"Creeping 
* Smooth stalked 
*Five nerved 
Bromus purg-atis Qivet soil) 
Poterium Sanpridsorba {dn/ good soil) 
Poa compressa {dry Jields) 
Phalaris amndinacia {wel soil) 
Trifolium pratense {^moderately dry) 
repens {rich dry soil) 
ochroleucuin {dry ground) 
Dae ty lis Cynosuroides {swamps) 
Cinna arundinacea {moist soil) 
Cynosurus cristatus {dry ground) 
Alopecurns pratensis {vioist soil) 
Jigrostis stolonifera (ivei or moist soil) 
Festuca.fluitans {stuamps) 
elaiior {moderately moist) 
pratensis {moderately dry) 
Poa vindis {nch and tolerably moist) 
Panicum maximum {strong warm soil) 
Jigrostis stricia {ivet or moist soil) 
Medicago saliva {a rich, dry sandy loam\ 
Poa trivialis {moist soil) 
Holcus lunutus {moist soil) 
Poa aqiuitica {swamp) 
Poa sto'onijera {-luet) 
Poa pratensis {dry soil) 
Poa Jiervaia {ivet) 
(a) This grass is by much too tender to bear the winter frosts of the middle of 
eastern states, but succeeds well iu Georgia, aud in the warmest parts of South 
Carolina. 
