An essay on the indigenous grasses of Ireland / [John White].

  • White, John.
Date:
1808
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Credit: An essay on the indigenous grasses of Ireland / [John White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on way fides and on walls. This f{pecies, like the former, is an annual, but an earlier grafs, It is productive in leaves, ftems, and feed; and to obtain a good crop, annual fowing and broken ground is moft congenial to it. In the Botanic Gardens, in the farmer’s divifion, where a plot is allotted to this fpecies, it looks remarkably well, and is much earlier in its fpring than the former. This may be accounted for by its fhedding its feed early, which vegetates and be- comes ftrong before the approach of winter. Were it the farmer’s defire to have a crop of hay off his ground the feafon in which he fows his red clover, and that he wifhed, when cutting his clover the enfuing year, to have a mixture of grafs, this fpecies I take to be very defirable for that purpofe, as it feeds early. And as the feed foon drops, (which is not the cafe with the Bromus fecalinus,) a fufficient quantity would fall to have the defired effet. And from its being an early grafs, and fending up flowering {tems fucceflively, it might, at the option of the pro~ prietor, be either cut in a fucculent or in a more advanced flate. It would alfo be lefs dangerous for cattle to eat the clover when in mixture with N this