The uses of plants : a manual of economic botany with special reference to vegetable products introduced during the last fifty years / by G.S. Boulger.
- George Simonds Boulger
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The uses of plants : a manual of economic botany with special reference to vegetable products introduced during the last fifty years / by G.S. Boulger. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the North of Britain, but suffer much .from the attacks of the Turnip Beetle. Mangold-Wurzel {Beta vulgaris, L., var. Cycla)] of nearly equal feeding value, yielding heavier crops, and not liable to the attacks of the Turnip Beetle, is adapted for hot and dry conditions where the Turnip will not flourish, as on the light soils of our southern counties. Kohl-Rabi is a variety of the Cabbage {Brassica oleracca, L.), in which the base of the stem is enlarged into a green turnip-like mass bearing the sheathing bases of the leaves. Sheep and cattle are fond of it. There is in Britain a very large acreage of natural meadow-land, and careful studies have been made by Messrs. Lawes and Gilbert, Buckman, Sutton, and others as to the most valuable hay-yielding grasses which this meadow-land yields, either with or without irrigation. These studies have furnished suggestions as to the most suitable species to sow for the forma- tion of permanent pasture, or for alternate husbandry. Among these are the following grasses : Rye-GRASS {Lolium perenne, L.), and its variety, Italian Rye-Grass {L. perenne, var. italicuni), especially for hay, Cock’S-FOOT Grass {Dactylis glomeraia, L.), Timothy or Cat’s-tail Grass {Phleum pratense, L.), especially for heavy or peaty land, Anthoxanthuni odoratiun, L., especially for hay, Poa prate?isis, L., for dry, sandy soils, P. nemo7'alis, L., var. sempervirens, and P. U'ivialis, L., for permanent pasture ; and the Fescues, Festuca duriuscula, L., F. elatior, L., and F. pratensis, Hudson, for permanent pasture, and F. 7'ubra, L., on sandy soils. Besides these the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28080130_0194.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
