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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    the winter, rapid in the growth of its foliage, and not averfe to any foil. Notwithftanding all thefe good qualities, I have often heard it fpoken lightly of. However, many gentlemen and farmers are not aware that this grafs in its feed fhould be changed once in every four years at leaft; as is commonly the cafe through out this ifland with potatoes and oats. This I have experienced in the Botanic gardens; for I have remarked whenever I brought in a variety of this grafs from any diftance, fuch as eight or ten miles, it throve better than any I had colle&ed in or about the ground. From what I had heard at Le&ure, I con- fider Mr. Pacey’s Ray-grafs (for which he has fo confiderable demand) to be an improved variety of the Lolium perenne. ' This improve- ment I take to be owing to nothing elfe than the change of foil; for, as I have remarked, it will degenerate, as potatoes and corn do, if there be not a change either in- feed or foil. | ‘About thirty years ago I recolle& that whole fields of this grafs were cultivated at Rathef- ear, a country feat belonging at that time to the Rt. Hon. John Fofter, and was efteemed by