“ The common yellow vctchllng, Lai/j^'rus praUnfis, or everlaflitig-tnre, mj.-’,ht likewife be on mrmy occafions 
“ cultivated with profit by the farmer. It grows with great luxuriance iti flitF clayey foils, and continues to yield 
“ annually for any length of time, a great weight of forage, which is deemed to be of the very beff quality : and 
“ as it is equally lit for palfure or for hay, the farmer would have it in his power to apply it to the one or the 
“ other of thefe ufes, at any period that might beft fult liis convenience. — It is likewife attended with this far- 
“ ther advantage, that as it continues to grow with equal vigour in the end of lummer as in the beginning 
“ thereof, it would admit of being paftiircd upon in the fpring, till the middle or feven the end of May, flaould 
“ it be neceflary ; without endangering the lofs cf the crop of hay ; w'hich cannot poflibly be d>ine with rve-grais, 
“ or any other plant ufuallv cultivated by the farmer, except clover ; which Is equally unfit for early p.illure or 
“ for hay. This plant would be the more valuable to the farmer that it grows to the greateft perfection on fuch 
“ foils as are altogether unfit for producing fain-foin ; the only plant hitherto cultivated that feems to pofTcfs quali- 
“ ties approaching to thofe of this one. — It muft, however, be acknowledged, that the difficulty of procuring feeds 
“ of this plant in abundance, mufl be a very great bar to the general cultlvStion thereof: for although tliefe ripen 
“ very well in our climate, yet the quantity that it produces is lb inconfiderable, and the difficulty of getting them 
“ feparated from the pod is fo great, as to make it iiecefTary to gather them by the hand; in which way the 
“ quantity obtained muft be very trifling. To counterbalance this defeCt, however, it may bd obferved,, that it is 
“ not only an abiding plant, which never leaves the ground where it has been once eftablifbed ; but that it alfo 
“ increafes fo faft by its running roots, that a very few plants at firft put into a field, w'ould footi fpread over the 
“ whole and ftock it fufficieiitly. If a fmall patch of good ground is fowed with the feeds of this plant in 
“ rows about a foot diftant from one another, and the intervals be kept clear of weeds for that feafon, the 
“ roots will fpread fo much as to fill up the whole patch next year ; when the ftalks may be cut for green fodder 
“ or for hay. And if that patch were dug over in the fpring following, and the roots taken out with the hand, 
“ it would furnilh a great quantity of plants, which might be planted in fuch fields as you meant to have filled 
“ with this, at the diftance of two or three feet a-part ; which w'ould probably there take root, and quickly 
“ overfpread the whole field. And as there might always be a fufficlent quantity of the roots left to fill again 
“ the patch from whence they were taken, it would be ready to furniffi a frelh fupply the next feafon, and 
might thus continue to ferve as a nurfery for ever afterwards. It appears to me, that this would be the moft 
** likely method of propagating this plant with eafe ; but I have not as yet had fufficient experience thereof ro 
be able either to tell precifely the expence of It, or to anfwer pofitively for the fuccefs thereof in all cafes.” 
