8 PREFACE. 
names except where I have, fur good reasons, thought it necessary 
to use them. 
The majority of these chapters have already appeared in 
The Field newspaper, and it is through the kind permission of the 
proprietors of that paper that I am able to reproduce them. 
I would tender my warmest thanks to those who have 
corresponded with me upon interesting questions in relation to 
grasses and to grass growing. From them I have learnt much 
which, but for their kindness, would have taken me years to 
ascertain by personal observation. In particular, I have to thank 
Lord Leicester, Lord Clifton (now Earl of Darnley), and Mr. 
Martin Sutton for their kindly interest in the subject whilst these 
articles were appearing in Zhe Fie/d, and whilst differing perhaps 
from them in some not unimportant points, I cordially admit the 
value of their criticisms on those questions in which we are not 
at one. 
I would also thank my son (of Norwich) for having edited 
the whole of this work for me, and for the care and trouble he 
has devoted to it, in order that it might be placed in the hands 
of the reader in its present form. 
WILLIAM SPENCER EVERITT 
OuLvron Broap, Lowestrorr, 
January, 1897. 
