VI PREFACE. 



acquaintance being succeeded by admiration, and ripen- 

 ing into friendship, nor of the cordial satisfaction result- 

 ing from the new study. We earnestly entreat our 

 readers to throw themselves without delay into the pur- 

 suit of grass-lore, and to begin to collect and to study 

 at once, so that the present season may be fully utilized; 

 for we aim at practical advantage as well as intellectual 

 amusement, and hope to be of use to the agriculturist 

 as well as to the lover of botany. 



May, 1867. 



