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, Illustrated with Numerous Figures of the Plants and Seeds Upon which These Experiments Have Been Made, and Practical Observations on Their Natural Habits, and the Soils Best Adapted to Their Growth ... Accompanied with the Discriminating Characters of the Species and VarietiesJames Ridgway, 1826 - 438 ページ |
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2-valved acre 64 dr acre 80 dr acre in drying afford of nutritive Agrostis stolonifera Alopecurus pratensis Amer Avena awnless brome-grass Bromus calyx clayey loam cock's-foot corolla creeping crested dog's-tail crop culms cultivated ditto dr dry The produce drying 64 dr Engl Experiments fescue fiorin florets flowering Germ grains Gram grass afford grass weigh herbage Holcus Hort Host husks ibid indig inferior June leaves loam Lolium perenne matter The produce meadow mucilage Native of Britain natural nearly nutritive matter panicle permanent pasture Phleum Phleum pratense plants Poa nemoralis Poa pratensis Poa trivialis produce of latter-math produce per acre proportion quaking-grass R. S. Linn rye-grass sandy soil seed is ripe sheaths sown space Spec species of grass Specific character spike spikelets straw superior Trifolium turf valve variety vegetable week of July weight lost weight of nutritive Willd
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381 ページ - In general those waters which breed the best fish are the best fitted for watering meadows; but most of the benefits of irrigation may be derived from any kind of water.
290 ページ - Marquess of Hastings. The seeds were sown in the Experimental Grass Garden at Woburn Abbey, where they vegetated readily, and produced plants which flowered the second year from seed. These perfected seed in the month of October, and the plants raised from this seed the following spring differed in no respect from those the produce of the Indian seed ; our figure is taken from a plant of the later sowing.
245 ページ - When an excess of grass seeds is sown, the seeds, in general, all vegetate, but the plants make little, if any progress, until, from the want of nourishment to the roots, and the confined space for the growth of the foliage, a certain number decay, and give the requisite room to the proper number of plants; and that will be according as there are a greater or less variety of different species of grasses combined in the. sward.
134 ページ - The proportional value which the grass of the latter-math bears to that of the seed crop, is nearly as 13 to 9 ; and the proportional value or nourishment contained in the autumn grass, exceeds that of the first grass of the spring, as 9 to 7.
117 ページ - The term sandy, for instance, should never be applied to any soil that does not contain at least | of sand ; sandy soils that effervesce with acids should be distinguished by the name of calcareous sandy soil, to distinguish them from those that are siliceous.
iii ページ - 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.
117 ページ - The term clayey soil should not be applied to any land which contains less than one-sixth of impalpable earthy matter, not considerably effervescing with acids ; the word loam should be limited to soils, containing at least one-third of impalpable earthy matter, copiously effervescing with acids.
141 ページ - ... and sweet-scented vernal, the greater proportional value is always, on the contrary, found in the grass of the flowering crop. Whatever the cause may be, it is evident that the loss sustained by taking these grasses at the time of flowering is considerable. In ordinary cases this seldom happens in practice, because these grasses perfect their seed about the season when hay-harvest generally commences, unless...