. Pastures and pasture plants ... Pastures; Forage plants. PASTURES AND PASTURE PLANTS CHAP. required per acre. This grass may well form one-eighth part of all mixtures for permanent pasture; and it is most desirable for leys which are intended to last for 3 years and upwards. Manure of any kind is very beneficial. Anthoxanthum —Vernal-Grass Sweet-scented Vernal-Grass {Anthoxanthum odoratum).—Perennial, forming compact tufts of " bottom-grass "; flowering in April; and perfecting seed during June. Comparatively poor in nutritive value and bulk of produce, this is the earliest of fodd
. Pastures and pasture plants ... Pastures; Forage plants. PASTURES AND PASTURE PLANTS CHAP. required per acre. This grass may well form one-eighth part of all mixtures for permanent pasture; and it is most desirable for leys which are intended to last for 3 years and upwards. Manure of any kind is very beneficial. Anthoxanthum —Vernal-Grass Sweet-scented Vernal-Grass {Anthoxanthum odoratum).—Perennial, forming compact tufts of " bottom-grass "; flowering in April; and perfecting seed during June. Comparatively poor in nutritive value and bulk of produce, this is the earliest of fodder grasses in spring; is almost unaffected by drought, cold or excessive wet; luxuriates under the shade of trees ; succeeds best on moist sandy loams, though found in pastures on all kinds of land, even in the driest situations ; and is neglected by stock, so that the flower-culms are often to be found in quantity in autumn. The autumn growth is less luxuriant than that of spring, but new shoots are thrown up soon after each cutting. Ac- cording to Sinclair, a brown sandy loam, with manure, yielded per acre, at the time of flowering, 7,827 lbs. of green, or 2,103 lbs. dried, produce, with 6,805 l^^s. of aftermath. True seed is gathered from wild plants in the forests of central Germany, but that of ^ Pud's Vernal-grass {Anthox- anthum Puelii), a worthless annual variety to which it bears a close resemblance, is usually substituted for it in commerce. Wavy mountain hair-grass is also employed as an adulterant. Good seed should have 60 per cent, of germination and 95 per cent, of purity, 13 7 lbs. being required per acre. Though cattle eat its bitter foliage only from necessity. Sweet vernal-grass, imparting as it does a pleasant aroma to hay, may be used in mixtures of seeds for permanent and temporary pastures on dry soils, where better grasses do not Sweet-scented Vernal-Grass. {AnthoxaniU7tin odoratum.') AvENA—Oat-Grass Tall Oat-Grass; False Oat-Grass (Avena
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