PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION 



tHIS well-known little work, which has been diit of print for a considerable time, 

 being frequently asked for, The Lawson Seed and Nursery Company have 

 iMiivn....jinniaj mil ck pleasure in issuing the present edition in a different, but, they trust, not less 

 acceptable form- 

 There is scarcely anything new to be said on a subject which has already been so ex- 

 haustively treated. There have been no additional introductions of Herbage and Forage 

 Plants during the past score of years considered worthy of notice here. It is, however, 

 remarkable that the cultivation of the most important grasses, to which earnest attention was 

 called many years ago in the early editions of these pages, has increased over the world to an 

 extent little anticipated by the Pioneers in their introduction ; several sub-varieties formerly 

 noticed, not being of practical value to the agriailturisi, are now discarded. 



The Tables for regulating the various mixtures of Grass Seeds remain nearly as they 

 were; many years of careful study of the subject, and the almost universal adoption of the 

 system, having demonstrated the wisdom and forethought of their original compilers. The 

 illustrations of leading sorts of grasses form a new feature in the book, and, considering the 

 life-long devotion to, and interest in, this and kindred subjects, evinced by oik lately passed 

 away, t/ie Frontispiece may perhaps be considered tiot inappropriate on this occasion. 



Edinburgh, February iSyy 



