PKEFACE 



TO 



THE POPULAR EDITION. 



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Again, before a year has expired since the pubhcation of 

 the previous edition, comes an urgent call for another issue 

 of my book on Permanent and Temporary Pastures, from 

 which fact it is evident that Laying down Land to Grass, 

 and the After-management of land so laid down, are subjects 

 of increasing interest. Several editorial remarks and a number 

 of letters having expressed the wish that an edition should 

 be published at a popular price, I have gladly adopted the 

 suggestion. One writer hinted that the letterpress might be 

 sent out without the plates ; but believing, as I do, that hardly 

 anything is more necessary in connection with the improvement 

 of Gi'ass Lauds than to famiUarise cultivators with the appear- 

 ance of the best varieties of Grasses, I have had a series of plates 

 engraved on wood by one of the first artists of the day. These 

 illustrations will, I trust, be found an efiicient substitute for the 

 costly coloured plates of former editions. 



]\IAETIN J. SUTTON. 



