QUAKING-GRASS. See BOTANY Index.

BRISE, in Husbandry, denotes ground that has lain long untilled.

BRISE Vents, shelters used by gardeners who have not walls on the north side, to keep cold winds from damaging their beds of melons. They are inclosures about six or seven feet high, and an inch or more thick; made of straw, supported by stakes fixed into the ground, and props across on both inside and outside; and fastened together with willow-twigs, or iron wire.