HORTUS GRAMINEUS 



WOBURNENSIS: 



OR, AN 



ACCOUNT OF THE RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS 



ON THE 



Jlroirua mh i3tutrit(be €tualit(e!Sf 



OF DIFFERENT 



GRASSES AND OTHER PLANTS 



USED AS 



THE FOOD OF THE MORE VALUABLE DOMESTIC ANIMALS: 



INSTITUTED BV 



JOHN, DUKE OF BEDFORD. ^^ 



ILLUSTRATED WITH 'Ala 



NUMEROUS FIGURES OF THE PLANTS AND SEEDS UPON WHICH THESE EXPERl1viEN¥s 



HAVE BEEN MADE, AND PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR NATURAL 



HABITS AND THE SOILS BEST ADAPTED TO THEIR GROWTH; 



POINTING OUT THE KINDS MOST PliOFITABLB FOR 



PERMANENT PASTURE, IRRIGATED MEADOWS, DRY OR UPLAND 

 PASTURE, AND THE ALTERNATE HUSBANDRY; 



ACCOMPANIED WITH THE 



DISCRIMINATING CHARACTERS OF THE SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 



By GEORGE SINCLAIR, F.L.S., F.H.S. 



GARDENER TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD; 



CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE CALEDONIAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, AND 



CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HON. THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE OF STUTTGART. 



" The soil offers inexhaustible resources, which, when properly appreciated and employed, must 

 increase our wealth, our population, and our physical strength. — Discoveries made in the cultivation of 

 the earth arc not merely for the time and country in which they are developed, but they may be considered 

 as extending to future ages, and as ultimately tending to benefit the whole human race — as affording sub- 

 sistence for generations yet to come — as multiplying life, and not only multiplying life, but likewise 

 providing for its enjoyment." — Davy. 



LONDON: 

 PRINTED FOR JAME.S RIDGWAV, 169, PICCADILLY. 



1824. 



