. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . ey. In the spring thefollowing mixture : For clay land—Aira caspitosa lutescens, ? 1 lb.; Alopecurus pratensis, 3 lbs.; Dactylis glomerata,5 lbs.; Festuca duriuscula, 2 lbs. ; F. heterophylla and Felatior, 2 lbs.; F. loliaeea, 2 lbs.; F. pratensis, 3 lbs.; Loliumperenne, 6 lbs. ; L. natura, 4 lbs.; Phleum pratense. 3 lbs.;i ?ia tnlalis> 3 K>s.; P. nemoralis, 2 lbs.; Medicago lupulina,1 lb.; Tnfolinm pratense perenne, 4 lbs. ; T. repens, 5 the lighter soil leave out Aira, Arrhenatherum, Festucaelatior and loliaeea, and Phleum, a
. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . ey. In the spring thefollowing mixture : For clay land—Aira caspitosa lutescens, ? 1 lb.; Alopecurus pratensis, 3 lbs.; Dactylis glomerata,5 lbs.; Festuca duriuscula, 2 lbs. ; F. heterophylla and Felatior, 2 lbs.; F. loliaeea, 2 lbs.; F. pratensis, 3 lbs.; Loliumperenne, 6 lbs. ; L. natura, 4 lbs.; Phleum pratense. 3 lbs.;i ?ia tnlalis> 3 K>s.; P. nemoralis, 2 lbs.; Medicago lupulina,1 lb.; Tnfolinm pratense perenne, 4 lbs. ; T. repens, 5 the lighter soil leave out Aira, Arrhenatherum, Festucaelatior and loliaeea, and Phleum, and sow one-haf thequantity of Alopecurus, and add 2 lbs. of Festuca had better read Lawsons pamphlet, Agrostographia,and Mr. Thompsons paper on Grassland management in thelast volume of the English Agri. Societys Journal Microscopic Invebti«aiions : Micrometer. The offor has kuimade by the Society for two years, and no Essay has btenicrthcoKmg. Mr. Curtis is the person you suppose. THE PLOUGH TRIALS AT WARWICK. HOWARDS CHAMPION PLOUGH. Gained the FIRST PRIZE as the Best Plough for General Purposes at Warwick, BEING the CHIEF PRIZE for PLOUGHS, awarded by the Royal Agricultural Society of England, at thisMeeting. The importance of this Prize will he gathered from the fact that the GENERAL PURPOSE PLOUGHS are theonly ones tried on BOTH LIGHT and HEAVY LAND, and as HOWARDS CHAMPION PLOUGH proved itsell to he the beston both soils, the FIRST PRIZE, of the HIGHEST AMOUNT given by the Society for any kind of Plough, was awarded toJ. & F. Howard. PRIZES awarded to J. & F. Howard, by tho Royal Agricultural Society of England, at the WARWICK MEETING, 1859,being not only the LARGEST NUMBER of PRIZES, but the LARGEST NUMIiER of FIRST PRIZES awarded to any Exhibitor. THE FIRST PRIZE for the BEST PLOUGH for GENERAL PURPOSES, also a PRIZE for the BEST PLOUGHFOR LIGHT LAND, AND A PRIZE FOR THE BEST PLOUGH FOR HEAVY LAND; the FIRST PRIZE FOR THE BESTLIGHT HARROWS, the SECOND PRIZE
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