HORTTJS GRAMINEUS 



WOBURNENSIS: 



OR, AN 



ACCOUNT OF THE RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS 



ON THE 



$rotmce antr ^utn'tffae <mlitit& 



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 ; 



POINTING OUT THE KINDS MOST PROFITABLE 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. 



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GARDENER TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OP 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 are 

 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 subsistence for 

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

 its enjoyment." DAVY. 



THIRD EDITION. 



LONDON: 

 JAMES RIDGWAY, 169, PICCADILLY. 



1826. 



