British Grasses

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Excerpt from British Grasses: An Introduction to the Study of the Gramineæ of Great Britain and IrelandOF all the plants covering our hills and valleys, Grasses are the most general and the most important. We attach great and deserved importance to utility, and seldom stint our meed of praise to beauty, yet, as we pluck up the grassy weeds in our ¿ower-beds, or sen tence the garden walk to a covering of salt to destroy the young grass blades, how little we recognize how benefieent and lordly a family we are making war with: yet, as the term weed has been well defined as a plant growing where it is not wanted, the young grasses, so valuable in the meadows or pasture, are deserving of extermination when they intrude themselves into the parterre.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.