ON THE MIXED HERBAGE OE PERMANENT MEADOW. 
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Table XL.—Relative predominance of Holcus lanatus. 
Holms lanatus 
Was First, Second, or Third, 
among the total Grasses, a3 under, 
1862. 
1867. 
1872. 
1877. 
1862. 
1867. 
1872. 
1877. 
r i . . 
2 
2 
2 
10-70 
14-06 
17-55 
2 . . 
3 
2 
10-94 
6"85 
11-36 
3 . . 
, m 
n m 
3 
5-04 
7-97 
. . 
12-55 
4-1 . 
1 
2 
1 
11-82 
9T6 
. . 
19-35 
4-2 . 
2 
, ; 
3 
16-21 
10-53 
. , 
6-03 
5 . . 
3 
, , 
10-08 
5-15 
. . 
6 . . 
2 
8-17 
, t 
5-31 
14-89 
7 . . 
'i 
2 
5-06 
11-81 
13T6 
8 . . 
2 
2 
10-25 
. , 
18-22 
9 . . 
2 
12-14 
9-84 
7-61 
10-37 
Plots - 
! 10 . . 
11-1 . 
i 
9 50 
9-92 
8-24 
10-33 
20-29 
11-2 . 
3 
7-37 
, . 
10-59 
19-48 
12 . . 
3 
m , 
5-57 
. , 
10-12 
13 . . 
, , 
5-35 
, , 
. . 
14 . . 
3 
6-60 
6-63 
. , 
12-75 
15 . . 
*3 
3 
2 
7-61 
11-81 
5-32 
14-95 
16 . . 
3 
3 
10-45 
11-69 
5-08 
12-64 
17 . . 
t # 
# # 
8-23 
813 
5-87 
10-91 
18 . , 
— 
1 
3 
2 
— 
12-78 
7-32 
17-45 
19 . . 
— . 
—[ 
8 
2 
— 
—. 
14-03 
21-19 
_20 . . 
— 
— 
3 
1 
■— 
—■ 
12-39 
29-47 
1 
[First . 
1 
2 
0 
2 
1 
Total < 
Second 
2 
3 
1 
9 
> 15 
16 
12 
19 
1 
L Third . 
2 
3 
3 
6 
J 
Yielded 5 per cent, and over, 
to the total Mixed Herbage, as under. 
This comparatively shallow-rooting plant has seldom attained the first place, and 
only on plots the manurial conditions of which do not tend to general luxuriance, It 
has been more frequently second; but only twice under conditions of high manuring, 
both nitrogenous and mineral, and of general luxuriance. It has also in some cases 
attained the third place, and in a few even where the growth was in a high degree 
luxuriant. The grasses which it has had chiefly to compete with under the circum¬ 
stances have been Agrostis vulgaris, Festuca ovina, Anthoxanthum odoratum , Avena 
pubescens, and A. flavescens , 
It has contributed more than 5 per cent, to the produce on the majority of the plots 
and in a greater number of cases in the fourth separation year than previously. 
It has reached its highest percentage with liberal nitrogenous and mineral manures ; 
but it has not, upon the whole, been largely developed on so many plots as either 
Agrotis vulgaris or Festuca ovina. It has only in a few cases contributed 20 per cent, 
of the total produce, but in one case nearly 30 per cent. 
