Lecture on the Constitution of Old Pastures and Meadows: Delivered January 14, 1869 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Brewer, William Henry

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ISBN 10: 1330859383 ISBN 13: 9781330859384

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Lecture on the Constitution of Old Pastures and Meadows: Delivered January 14, 1869

Thus speak the learned French authorities whom I have quoted, and they go on to give the picture Of some of the lands in detail, of Sicily, Algeria, Syria, etc., where the hills despoiled of their forests, and not clothed with grass, have been the prey of the storms for twenty or thirty centuries, the climate has been changed, the rains are capricious and vio lent, at times the soil has been washed from the hills, leaving but their rocky skeletons, the valleys half depopulated by the overflow of gravel from the hills, and the countries, once the types of wealth, now that of desolation and poverty.

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Excerpt from Lecture on the Constitution of Old Pastures and Meadows: Delivered January 14, 1869

Pastures and Meadows, which have not been disturbed by the plow for many years, differ in so many respects from those newly made, and moreover arc often so highly valued, that it may be profitable to Consider in what this difference consists, and the conditions upon which their superior excellence depends.

We may say that the old ones differ from new ones in at least four important particulars.

1st. The texture of the turf.
2d. The species of grasses contained.
3d. The qualities of the forage, and
4th. Their diseases and mishaps.

In these particulars the differences are the most obvious, but in the lesser details, many others might be enumerated.

A true turf or sod belongs only to temperate or cool and moist climates; to regions where more or less snow falls in the winter, and where the drouths of summer are not too frequent nor excessive. Botanists are acquainted with many thousands of species of grasses, I know not how many, but more than 4000 species have been described, classed in some 300 genera, constituting a well-marked natural order or family of plants, which order stands first in importance to man. It includes all our cereal grains as well as those plants known more familiarly as grasses. They arc found in all climates, and in all parts of the world. But only those belonging to the temperate and cool parts of the earth form a true sod; and furthermore, only a small proportion of those belonging to any one region, even if not too hot, has this habit.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330859383
• ISBN 13: 9781330859384
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 30