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 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. Systematic Name. English N
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 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. Systematic Name. English Name. In 100 Parts. Whole quantityof soluble or milritive matter. Mucilage or starch. Saccha- rine mat- ter or sugar. (Jluten or albumen. Extract or matter reniiered insoluble during eva- poration. Festuca /olikcoa {'M. c) //olcus odorJitus Anthoxanthum vcrnum yilopecilrus pratdnsis [tl] Pva f^rtilis (c) triviStlis (/) CynosCirus cristitus iolium peri?mie //gr6stis stolonifera Spiked fescue grass Sweet-scented soft grass Sweet-scented vernal grass Meadow fox-tail grass Fertile meadow grass Roughish meadow grass Crested dog's-tail grass Perennial rye-grass Fiorin Fiorin cut in winter ly 8-2 50 78 39 . 39 76 15 43 2-1 65 29 28 26 46 6i 2 4 4 3 6 5 3 4 5 8 1 1 2 6 3 6 7 6 4 5 2 3 5669. Of the fescue grass there are three species in the highest estimation as meadow hay grasses, viz. the meadow, tall, and spiked fescue, (fig. 790. a, b, c.) 5670. The F. pratensfs (a), or the meadow or fertile fescue grass, is found in most rich meadows and pastures in England, and is highly grateful to every description of stock. It is more in demand for laying down meadows than any other species except the rye-grass. By the Woburn experiments, the value of this grass at the time the seed is ripe, is to that of the grass at the time of flowering, as 6 to 18. The loss which is sustained by leaving the crop of this grass till the seed be ripe is very great, 'that it loses more of its weight i
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