Hortus gramineus Woburnensis: or, an account of the results of experiments on the produce and nutritive qualities of different grasses and other plants used as the food of the more valuable domestic animals: instituted by John, Duke of Bedford... / By George Sinclair.

  • Sinclair, George, 1786-1834.
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hortus gramineus Woburnensis: or, an account of the results of experiments on the produce and nutritive qualities of different grasses and other plants used as the food of the more valuable domestic animals: instituted by John, Duke of Bedford... / By George Sinclair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Phleum Hostii, Host's cat’s-tail-grass, [Sept.] from 8 to — Stipa pinnata, long-awned feather-grass, - - 15 20 Aira juncea, rush-leaved hair-grass, - - - 15 — Avena nuda, naked oat-grass, - - - 15 18 Agrostis tenuifolia, slender-leaved bent-grass, - - 15 —- Trichodium strictum, upright bent-grass, - - 15 — Dacty Us patens, spreading cock’s-foot-grass, - - 15 — Panicum sanguinale, blood-coloured panic-grass, - 15 — Melica cotrulea, blue melic-grass, - - - 15 — JEgilops squarrosa, rough-spiked goat’s-face-grass, - 15 — Agrostis spici venti, silky or light panicled bent-grass, (sown in Spring,) - - - -17 — JBromus confertus, crowded panicled-grass, - - 17 —1 Festuca alopecuroides, fox-tail-like fescue-grass, (Spring) 17 — Bromus hirsutus, hairy brome-grass, - 18 — Avena neglecta, neglected oat-grass, - - - 22— Medicago lupulina, non-such, trefoil, - - -22 — Sanguisorba Canadensis, greater burnet-grass, from 28 to Oct. 5 Agrostis stolonifera aristata, awned fiorin-grass, —-varia, various panicled bent-grass. Br ’omus purgansy - - - - Poa compressOy compressed-stalked meadow-grass, Lagurns ovatus, oval-spiked hare’s-tail-grass, - Flymus Europceus, European lyme-grass, Agrostis repens, creeping-rooted bent-grass, Triticum elongatum, long-spiked wheat-grass, - Agrostis Mexicana, Mexican bent-grass, Eathijrus ratensis, yellow vetchling, - VI. —OCTOBER. Arundo phragmites, common reed-grass, - 28 — - 28 — - 28 — - 28 — - 28 — - 29 — - 30 — - 30 — - 30 — - 30 — from 10 to 15 Agrostis alba, var. striped-leaved couch-bent-grass, Dactylis cynosuroides, American cock’s-foot-grass, Elymus junceus, rush-leaved lyme-grass, Elymus villosus, hairy-leaved lyme-grass, Elymus Virginicus, Virginian lyme-grass, Melica c&rulea, var. branching panicled melic-grass, - Triticum rigidum, stiff wheat-grass. In the above Table there are about twenty-four different species of grasses essential to the farmer, in forming an unfailing pasture of the highest fattening quality ; but proofs of this will be offered 10 10 10 10 10 10 12