PLAMTS USEFUL IN AGRICULTURE.

(lie spring, and to be particular in the other operations until the seedsripen. Now this business being so inconvenient to the farmer, it is notto be wondered at, that, wherever attempts of this kind have beenmade, they should fail from want of the necessary care as above stated,without which it is needless to speculate in such an undertaking.There is nevertheless still an opportunity, for any one who would giveup his land and time to the pursuit, to reap a rich and important har-vest; as nothing would pay him better, or redound more to his credit,than to get our markets regularly supplied with select seeds of the bestindigenous Grasses, so that a proper portion of them may be used forforming pasture and meadow-land.

The above hints are not thrown out by a person who wishes to spe-culate in a theory which is new, but by one who has cultivated thoseplants himself both for seed and fodder, and who would readily wishto promote their culture by stating a mode which has proved to b:in aprofitable pursuit, and for which he has, already, been honoured witha reward from the Society of Arts.

The following observations are intended to embrace such kinds onlyas are likely to be cultivated, with those that are distinguished for someparticular good properties; as it would be impossible within the limitsof this small memorandum to enumerate all the plants that are eatenby cattle. The same mode shall be pursued under all the differentheads in this department.

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