MUCH has been filid, and written, refpedine a oartieiiln.* Un i ,cn.r \ • , 
the parifli of Orchefton St. Mary, in Wikihire; which is averted "'i W > 1IC1 §r ° ws in a mea(low » in 
herbage; and to render the piece of ground, whereon it or produce a molt extraordinary quantity of 
fought for by many; but of what kind'it is, and whether it^iwe’ah^TV 1 - r va , u . ab e * f This Grafs has been 
a fee rtained. Mr. Curtis (wbofe zealous attention to obtain as welt^as read'* m ° (jI . als ’ bas n0 J teen 
^hdmg near the Spot he obtained fix (malll Turfs cut up m different parts of the above meadow. The Turfs 
^ere planted m his Garden. From the produce of thefc Turfs, he has concluded that the extraordinary fertility 
W this MeadoW ; ^ 0es n0t arlle from an y new , Gra <*> peculiar to it, but from feveral unufual circtfmftances, 
concurring, and favouring in an uncommon degree the growth of certain well-known GrafTes, efpecially the 
p oa triviahs and Agrojlis alba.—Jh* account of this experiment is publilhed in the Annals of Agriculture, 
- 70, p. 352. The produce oi onlyof thofe Turfs are mentioned. If Mr. Curtis has thus fixed upon 
ie Poa tnvialts and Agroflts alba from the frequency of their appearance in the Turfs which he planted, the lift 
hich he has given of the plants produced from thofe Turfs, will, it is apprehended, fcarcely juftify the 
jnclufion. The Poa trivially indeed appears in all the five Turfs. But the next in frequency is the Friticum 
ipens, or common Couch Grafs. This is a moft remarkable circumftance. As it is very rare that a fingle blade 
ot that Grafs appears in any meadow or pafture which has been in Grafs any confiderable length of time. It is 
' jfiable there might have been fome roots of the Triticurn repens in the plat, before the Turfs were admitted. 
The Author has been informed that this meadow is fituated near a fmall River, from which it is liable fome- 
times to be overflown ; but not very frequently: and that after fuch flooding it furnifhes a moft extraordinary 
,rge Crop of Grafs; incomparably larger than when it has not been flooded. This rivulet is delcribcd as iffuing 
am the Chalk-Hills at a fmall diftance above this meadow. And it is probable that the water brings down and 
pofits on the land, a quantity of calcareous matter, to which its uncommon fertility is owing. 
Altho’ the Writer of this it quite of the opinion of Mr. Curtis, that the fertility is not to be aferib’d to any 
particular Grafs, yet (from the intelligence of a Gentleman who viewed this meadow for two days laft lummer, 
j t h c time when the meadow had juft begun to be mowed, and brought away with him fome roots and flowering 
Specimens of a Grafs, which the people at work in the meadow, and an intelligent Farmer in the neighbourhood, 
afi'ured him was the particular or famous Orchefton Grafs) he has been led to conclude that the Grafs moft 
predominant in that meadow, is, not the Poa trivialis , but the Alopecurits fratenjis. The Gentleman indeed was no 
Botanift. But upon (hewing him fome fpecimens of Gralfes, he immediately fixed upon the Foxtail. As the 
meadow'was mowed early in June, it feems at leaft probable, that the Foxtail was at that lime the moft 
confpicuous.* 
As there is undoubtedly a particular period when the Grades are in the moft proper ftate for mowing; and as 
that ftate is moft probably about the time of their flowering, (either a little before or a little after) iliould all the 
Grades of this colledion be found upon fair trial to deferve cultivation : The following Diagraph would feem to 
divide them into proper afiortments to be fotvn together; fuppofing the fields or meadows where they are to be 
fown, be principally intended for Hay. If an affortment for three crops only be defired, the Brackets on the 
riohthand will (hew the divifion. Mfive crops be required, the Brackets on the left hand will dtreft to the 
allortment In the divifion of three parts, the firj! crop will be fit to cut early m June. I he feconi about 
Midfuminer And the third about the middle of Jfily. In the divifion of five parts, the firfi will be ripe about 
the lX end of May; the/W, the beginning of June, the third, about Midiummer, the fourth, about tile 
beginning of July; and the fifth, the middle or latter end of July. 
TU annual Mead™, vernal, Ztnoeth-JUlked r^h-tZ 
f Annual Meadow flowers 
1 Vernal 
1 1 Foxtail 
l Soft Brome 
fSmooth-ftalked Meadow 
] Rough-ftalked Meadow 
2 1 Smaller Fefcue 
(_ Quake Grals 
p Rough Cock s-foot 
^ ! TalTOat - 
2 \ Meadow Fefcue - 
L Darnel 
f Dogftail 
j Yellow Oat 
T 1 Soft-Grafs 
L Fine Bent 
f Meadow Barley - 
c Catftail 
LMarihBent 
T]>c Author In* fijicc received a tuft of this Grafs :» * 2 r0Wir, S 
i ft week in May 
2d week in May 
Ditto 
3d week in May 
4th week in May 
1 ft week in June 
Ditto 
2d week in June 
Ditto 
Ditto 
3d week in June 
4th week in June 
Ditto 
lft week in June 
2d week in July 
3d week in July 
Ditto 
4th week in July 
Ditto 
V I 
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an d f«om the leaf he can venture to pronounce it the Alopcourus prattnfii. 
