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lilot, or wild cliicory, grow naturally in plenty and 
luxux'iance, but upon good deep corn loams; heath, 
(«rica), denotes coldness and sterility ; gorse or furze, 
(ulex), thin barren gravel; broom, (spartium), deeper 
and looser light gravel. 
But agriculture has a still closer connection with bo¬ 
tany, in the improvements to be effected by the culti¬ 
vation of new and valuable plants, at present unknown 
and unnoticed by the farmer. It is very astonishing, 
that none of the natural grasses have been brought into 
general cultivation, except ray-grass, which is appa¬ 
rently far from being the best; this neglect can only be 
accounted for from the tendency of the soil to produce 
such spontaneously ; or, from the ignorance and inat¬ 
tention of those interested. The better grasses should 
certainly be more generally tried in laying land to pas¬ 
ture, particularly the (poa’s) meadow grasses, of which 
there are two or three good sorts; also the vernal grass, 
the fox tail, the dog’s tail, the timothy grass, and the 
rough cock’s foot, (dactylus), also the upland burnet 
on dry calcareous soil; lucerne on good loams, as well 
as chicory and melilot for pasture or hay; also the 
perennial vetches tvould be a valuable addition to our 
mowing land ; they are distinguished, I believe, by 
having a long foot stalk to the blossom, whilst the an¬ 
nuals blossom close to the stem, the seeds of such 
plants should be carefully gathered, cultivated, and en- 
creased, to be ready for sowing in laying land tor perma-, 
nent grass: to these may be added, the lathyrus pra- 
tensis, and the hare’s foot trefoil for the most barren 
sands; the bird’s foot trefoil for any soils ; most of these 
fire natives of this county: the weeds and iujurious 
plants should be pointed out for their destruction, and 
a more general knowledge of, and attention to, i;he 
' science of botany, could scarcely fail being productive 
of improvements in agriculture. 
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