. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. avtscens) is very generally cultivated, and appears, from the Wobumexperiments, to be a very valuable grass for pasture on a clayey soil. 5710. Of pasture grasses for inferior soils and upland situations, one of the principal is the Festuca ovina, or sheeps fescuegrass ( a). This \9 §\ ritSETl 1 &\ -»S grass is peculiarly «T I ^ V5!^ I V%&.
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. avtscens) is very generally cultivated, and appears, from the Wobumexperiments, to be a very valuable grass for pasture on a clayey soil. 5710. Of pasture grasses for inferior soils and upland situations, one of the principal is the Festuca ovina, or sheeps fescuegrass ( a). This \9 §\ ritSETl 1 &\ -»S grass is peculiarly «T I ^ V5!^ I V%&. adapted for hilly sheep \SW I odofA ill \Ar%Jr*i It is a low &^4/%~>> II £SAS rMC Ml ^(M^T3^ dwarf grass, but re- li-hed by all kinds of^a cattle. According to**- Sinclairs experience, on dry soils that areincapable of producingthe larger sorts, thisshould form the prin-cipal crop, or ratherthe whole; for it isseldom or never, in itsnatural state, foundintimately mixed withothers, but bv itself. 5711. The Vba alpma(b), Alopeciirus a/pi-nus, and Aira ctvspi-tbsa (c), Briza media (rf , and minima, and Agrnstis hiimilii and vulgaris, arc all dwarf mountain grasses, well adapted for hillypai 01 Book VI. WOBUfiN GRASSES. 8<W 5712. On the culture of these grasses it is unnecessary to enlarge, as it must obviously be the same as that of rye-grass or any of the others, 5713. The chief difficulty is to get the seed in sufficient quantity, for which a good mode is to contract witha seedsman, a year beforehand, for the quantity wanted. With all the pasture grasses, except the last class,we should recommend at least half the seed to be that of the perennial rye-grass ; and we think it shouldalso form a considerable part of the seeds used in laying down all meadows, except those for the aquaticor stoloniferous grasses. These, if they thrive, are sure to choak and destroy it, and therefore neitherrye-grass, nor any other grass, should ever be sown
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