ryegrass

Updated: July 12, 2026

But some misjudging friend had cut down and cleared away without mercy, and divided the varied and sylvan scene, which was divided by a little rivulet, into the two most formal things in nature a thriving plantation, many-angled as usual, and a park laid down in grass; wanting therefore the rich graminivorous variety which Nature gives its carpet, and having instead a braird of six days' growth lean and hungry growth too of ryegrass and clover.

Sir Walter Scott - The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford