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Rough-stalked meadow grass {Poa trivialis) 8 pecks. 
Tall oat-like soft-grass, {Holcus avenaceus) 2 
Meadow cat’s-tail {Phleum pratense) 15 lbs. 
Hard or smooth fescue (T’eitMcadMriM5CM/a or g/aira) 8 pecks. 
Crested dog’s-tail {Cynosurus c.ristatiis) 4 
Nerved meadow-grass (Poa weruata) 2 
Wood meadow-grass (Poa nemoralis) 4 
Narrow-leaved meadow-grass (Poa anguxtijblia) 1 
Broad-leaved creeping bent, or fiorin {Agrostis sto- 
lonifera, \ar. latifolia) 
Rye- grass {Lolium 2 }erenne) 4 
White or Dutch clover {Trifolium repens) 15 lbs. 
Bush vetch (Vida sepium) 2 pecks. 
Sweet-scented verual grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum) 1 
Perennial red clover {Trifolium pratense perenne) 12 lbs. 
Yarrow, {Achillea millefolium,) 4 
It appears that seeds mixed in the above proportions, and 
sowed, one bushel on an acre, would yield only about two 
seeds to every srpiare inch, whilst on the most fertile pastures 
seven plants are found within the same space. The propriety, 
however, of sowing three bushels and a half on an acre, which 
would be equal to seven seeds to an inch may be much ques- 
tioned. Half this quantity would suffice to produce such a 
crop as would shed its seed in the second year, and supply an 
ample stock of young plants ; and it may be presumed that 
those species would prove the most fertile to which the soil was 
most congenial, whereby seeds of unsuitable species would not 
be unprofitably spent. The method of sowing is given by Sin- 
clair as follows: — 
“ I have sown the seeds of the same grasses in every month 
of the year, January excepted : and though much depends on 
the weather and the state of the ground, the results were always 
in favour of the month of September and the beginning of Au- 
gust ; and, next to that, the middle or latter end of May, accor- 
ding as the weather was dry. The seeds vegetated, and grew 
with most vigour under the following circumstances ; when the 
ground had been deeply stirred, broken very fine, and made 
])erfectly smooth and compact on the surface, with a heavy rol- 
ler, previous to sowing the seeds; the ground in a dry state, at 
the time of sowing, the seeds sown on this fine, dry, compact 
