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vation of a proportion of winter tares, on that part of thefarm which is destined for turnip fallow, seems worthy of at-tention ; selecting for that purpose some part or parts of thestubble land intended for turnips, that is well sheltered. Per-haps a light dunging on the stubble might secure a more am-ple crop.

According to the opinion of an experienced botanist, " thesummer and winter vetch or tare are the same plant, and aredistinguished by these names, from the seasons in which theyare sown, and the purposes for which they are designed*.”

“ There is a plant of this kind, were it sufficiently known,that would repay the attention of British agriculturists ; theNarbonne vetch, or vicia Narbonensis of Linnaeus . This is aplant of a much more vigorous and rampant growth than thecommon vetch, as when both were sown in a garden in Scot-land , and on a poor soil, it afforded more than double thecrop f.” We have often much admired a plant of this fami-ly in gardens, usually called French honey-suckle, which de-serves the attention of agriculturists, and which is here onlymentioned as a hint

• Walker’s Hebrides , I. p. 228, -j- Ibid. I. p. 289.

J Several patches of the vicia sepium and yellow vctcliling mixed, stood inEast Lothian forty years ago, and were cut every year, and afforded a luxuriantcrop of herbage. One, on the Gosford estate, on the farm of Spittal, was brokeup about twenty years ago only, and taken into rotation with the rest of the field.It consisted of several acres. It must have been very valuable before the intro-duction of red clover.

The ervum hirsutum, or small hairy tare, grows very luxuriantly among allgrain crops, in Ross-shire. It affords most delicate herbage, and thp seeds canbe collected in any quantity. It is an annual plant, a hardy native, and, by cul-ture, might increase in size and succulency, and form a valuable addition to thestock of soiling herbage cultivated in this country.