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

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

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    great deal of which is now in an, uncultivated ftate, being chiefly turf bog. In this ftate the principal plants that grow upon it are, Erica vulgaris, and Melica cerulea, a coarfe grafs that cattle are not fond. of. He is reclaiming this-by. degrees, by the application of fea fand, which is on that part of the coaft a mixture of fea fhells and granitic particles. He in the firft place has the ground made fomewhat. even, and then the fand laid upon it; fometimes a mixture of fand and fea weed is applied. The firft crop he grows is potatoes in beds; the fecond crop is barley or good crop of hay, chiefly compofed of Agro/tis /tolonifera, a number of the plants of which are {pace of time overrun the whole furface. Mr. although he frequently, has had feveral acres aft it growing together, two ton of excellent hay, worth from four to five pounds per.ton. <Agrofis folonifera is a remark- ably {weet and juicy grafs, and cattle of every fort are fond of it, when made.into hay.” i
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