
UTILITY. 
GRASS. 
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and 
herb for the service of man, that he may bring forth 
food out of the earth. PSALM ciy. 14. 
Ir will be admitted that what is the most 
useful, is in nature the most common; and 
of all vegetable productions, what is there more 
common than grass? It clothes the earth 
with a verdant carpet, and it yields food, — 
nay, it “grows for the cattle,’? in obedience to 
the Creator’s word. 
Let the earth 
Put forth the verdant grass, herb yielding seed, 
And fruit tree yielding fruit after her kind, 
Whose seed is in herself upon the earth, 
He scarce had said, when the bare earth, till then 
Desert and bare, unsightly, unadorned, 
Brought forth the tender grass, whose verdure clad 
Her universal face with pleasant green ; 
Then herbs of every leaf, that sudden flowered 
Opening their various colours, and made gay 
Her bosom, smelling sweet. MILTON, 
Howitt observes,—‘* When grasses of the 
larger species are collected and disposed taste- 
fully, as I have scen them by ladies, in vases, 
polished horns, and over picr-glasses, they retain 
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