An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 Book VI. BURNET, RIBWORT, &c. 883 11^778 Sect. IV. Vayious Pl
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 Book VI. BURNET, RIBWORT, &c. 883 11^778 Sect. IV. Vayious Plants (not Graminece) ivliich arc or may be cultivated as Herbage and fiir Hay. 5618. Among the inferior herbage plants which are occasionally cultivated, are burnet, ribwort, furze, and spurry. Those which might be cultivated arc very numerous, and in- cludes several species of Ficia, iathyrus, Galega, Lotus, Trifolium, Medicago, and others of the native Leguminbsse, or pea-like flowering plants; and Achillea, Alchemilla Cheiranthus, S'pArtium, ^'pium, and a variety of others of different families. With the exception of the chiccory and furze, there are none of these plants tliat deserve the atten- tion of the professional farmer ; ribwort and burnet are occasionally sown; but they are of little value as Jiay plants, and in most pastures their place might be more advan- tageously occupied by one or other of the natural grasses. With respect to the other plants enumerated, they have never been tried but by way of experiment, and are only mentioned as resources under peculiar circumstances, and as a field of enquiry and exer- tion for the amateur cultivator. 5619. The burnet [Pimprenelle grands, Fr.; i*otferium Sanguisorba L. fig. 778.) is a native plant, a hardy perennial with compound leaves, flowers, and a long tap-root. It was originally brought into notice by Roque, a commer- cial gardener, at Walliam green, near London, who found means to procure the patron
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