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The improved culture of three principal grasses, lucerne, sainfoin, and burnet: wherein is described a new method of cultivating lucerne to much greater Profit than any hitherto practised in England or Abroad; shewn by a Comparison of the several Methods. To which are added, some observations on clover.
Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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A practical treatise of cultivating lucern: containing the methods as by experience are found to succeed. Including the practice used in several parts of France. By Bartholomew Rocque.
Rocque, Bartholomew.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]
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Lucerne or alfalfa plant (Medicago sativa): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 21070i- Books
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Essays on husbandry. Essay I. A general introduction; Shewing That Agricultre is the Basis and Support of all flourishing Communities;-The antient and present State of that useful Art;-Agriculture, Manufactures, Trade, and Commerce justly harmonized;-of the right Cultivation of our Colonies;-Together with the Defects, Omissions, and possible Improvements in English Husbandry. Essay II. An account of some experiments tending to improve the culture of lucerne by transplantation: Being the first Experiments of the Kind hitherto made and published in England: From whence it appears, that Lucerne is an Article of great Importance in English Husbandry. The Whole illustrated with Copper-Plates and Representations cut on Wood.
Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]
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Six British wild flowers, including three types of trefoil (Lotus species). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1856]Reference: 24634i