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The foregoing extracts are chiefly from the intro- 

 duction to the first folio edition. The second royal 

 8vo. edition was published in 1824, and dedicated to 

 Thomas William Coke, Esq. M.P., now Earl of Lei- 

 cester and Holkham. From the introduction to this 

 last, we extract what follows: — 



In the original copy of this work, the catalogue of 

 proper grasses contained upwards of thixe humbxd 

 and twenty species ; but in this (second) edition, the 

 number of distinct species of the proper grasses enu- 

 merated, amounts to about one thousand Jive hundred. 

 This increase has arisen from information gained 

 from new intermediate publications, but chiefly from 

 the authors researches and inquiries in some of the 

 richest and most fattening pastures in Devonshire, 

 Lincolnshire, and in the Vale of Aylesbury. The 

 proportions in which the different grasses and plants 

 were found combined in these pastures, were care- 

 fully examined and ascertained ; besides, pieces of 

 the turf were transplanted into the grass -garden, where 

 their properties were studied and recorded, and the 

 results introduced into the new edition, together 

 with directions for collecting seeds ; new mode of 

 returning tillage land to pasture, transplanting 

 turf, &c. There is also an announcement, that the 

 work has been translated into the German langfuasfe, 

 by Mr. Schmidt, and that the King of Wirtemburg 

 was graciously pleased to allow it to be dedicated to 

 his Majesty. 



In this said Edition, numerous lithographed figures 

 are given of the plants, and also of their seeds sepa- 

 rately. These engravings very much swelled the 



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