Query, Who was the author? and had Holdsworth any farther connexion with Hampshire than that of having been educated at Winchester School?
J. F. M.
Second Growth of Grass (Vol. viii., p. 102.).—R. W. F. of Bath inquires for other names than "fog," &c. In Sussex we leave "rowens," or "rewens" (the latter, I believe, a corruption), used for the second growth of grass.
Halliwell, in his Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, has "Rowens, after-grass," as a Suffolk word. Bailey gives the word, with a somewhat different signification; but he has "Rowen hay, latter hay," as a country word.
William Figg.
Lewes.
In Norfolk this is called "aftermath eddish," and "rowans" or "rawins."
The first term is evidently from the A.-S. mæth, mowing or math: Bosworth's Dictionary. Eddish is likewise from the A.-S. edisc, signifying the second growth; it is used by Tusser, October's Husbandry, stanza 4.:
"Where wheat upon eddish ye mind to bestow,
Let that be the first of the wheat ye do sow."