Part 38

Footnote 6:

In 1826, the herbage on some of our clay-lands designed for growing was, by reason of its tardy growth, and the dryness of the season, in such small quantities, that the owners let it grow untouched until after the corn harvest, in order to obtain some bottom grass, and, in consequence, our haymaking, as it was called, was not over until the last week in September.

Footnote 7:

The field poppy, as the reader must be aware, is no regular attendant upon the grain-fields of America.—ED.

Footnote 8:

But dibbling is not held in esteem by us: we think that in wet seasons the holes retain the moisture and the sets perish; and that in dry weather, being less covered than when planted by the spade, they are more obnoxious to injury by birds and mice, become affected by droughts, are longer in shooting out, and produce, in most cases, inferior crops. In a lighter soil these objections, perhaps, would not be found reasonable.

Footnote 9:

About fifty-four dollars, sixty cents.—ED.

Footnote 10:

See note A, appendix.

Footnote 11:

Dipsacus sylvestris or wild teazel, is a naturalized weed in America; it differs from D. Fullonum or Fuller’s teazle, a cultivated plant.—ED.

Footnote 12:

Equisetum hyemale, the Dutch rush, or shave grass, is yet used in its natural state for finishing fine models in wood, and in removing roughness in plaster casts.

Footnote 13:

Philosoph. Trans. as quoted in the Sylva.

Footnote 14:

Pliny’s Natural History.

Footnote 15:

See note C, appendix.

Footnote 16:

This bee does not exclusively make use of the leaves of rose for its purposes, as I have known it in some seasons cut away the young foliage of cytisus laburnum, even when growing in company with its favorite rose.

Footnote 17:

See note D, appendix.

Footnote 18:

See note E, appendix.

Footnote 19:

See note F, appendix.