This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... stamens three; styles attached below the apex of the ovary The grasses of this genus are coarse, with large spikelets, somewhat drooping generally when ripe." Flint remarks, "Not one of the brome grasses is worthy of a moment's attention as a cultivated agricultural grass, and tbe cleaner tbe farmer ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... stamens three; styles attached below the apex of the ovary The grasses of this genus are coarse, with large spikelets, somewhat drooping generally when ripe." Flint remarks, "Not one of the brome grasses is worthy of a moment's attention as a cultivated agricultural grass, and tbe cleaner tbe farmer keeps his fields of them the better." On rich land the brome grasses, including tbe common cheat, make a nice winter pasture. But this pasture is bought at too dear a rate by the small grain grower, as the seeds of this family ripen at the same time with wheat, and diminish the value of the grain. Barley or rye on rich land will yield more winter pasture than the species of this family called rescue grass, and are not liable to the same objections. If a farmer desires an annual winter grass pasture, he should sow Italian rye-grass, of which more will be said hereafter. BERMUDA GRASS--CTNODON DACTOLON. Although this has been introduced from the West Indies, it has been so thoroughly domesticated in parts of the South that it may be classed among native grasses. It is said to be the celebrated Daub sacred grass of India. At the South, generally, it has received cursing rather than blessings, especially by exclusive cotton planters. Not having had any extended personal experience of this grass, yet having formed, from long observation, a high opinion of its value, instead of giving my own estimate of it, I huve thought it best to lay before the readers of this manual the opinions of gentlemen who, by long familiarity with it, are well qualified to pronounce in regard to its merits. Accordingly, extracts from letters are submitted from Colonel A. J. Lane, a successful cotton planter, formerly of Hancock County, Ga., now of Macon, ...
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