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Seven grasses including fescues (Festuca species), dog's tail grass (Cynosurus cristatus), meadow grasses (Poa species) and ryegrass (Lolium species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807.
Date: 29 August 1807Reference: 25550i- Pictures
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A lily (Lilium persicum): flowering stem with butterfly, moth and beetle. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1685.Date: [c. 1660]Reference: 24919i- Books
Report of a Working Group on Forages (third meeting) : held at the Station de Génétique et d'Amélioration des Plantes de l'INRA, Mauguio, Montpellier, France, 9-12 January 1989.
European Cooperative Programme on Conservation and Exchange of Crop Genetic Resources. Forages Working Group. Meeting 1989 : Montpellier, France)Date: 1989- Pictures
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A flowering plant stem, a grass and a single leaf. Watercolour.
Reference: 22986i- Ephemera
Gramene : a bird's eye view of grass genomes : web site www.gramene.org.
Date: [2005]- Pictures
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Five examples of different plant stems: a crow-foot, pilewort, onion, cuckoo flower and sheep's fescue plant. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819.Date: 31 December 1802Reference: 24239i- Books
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A letter to the Dublin Society, from Sir James Caldwell, Fellow of the Royal Society. Giving an account of the culture and quality of several kinds of grass lately discovered. To which is added, the second edition of his proposal for the increase of apiaries in Ireland. Addressed to the Dublin Society. Which Proposal was approved of, and Premiums offered to the amount of 100 l. by the Society for the Encouragement of Apiaries, according to the Plan laid down in said Proposal, to be adjudged the 3d. of next October.
Caldwell, James, Sir, -1784.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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A compendious method for the raising of the Italian brocoli, Spanish cardoon, celeriac, finochi, and other foreign kitchen-vegetables. As also an account of The Lucerne, St Foyne, Clover, And other grass-seeds. With the Method of Burning of Clay, for the Improvement of Land. The sixth edition. To which is added, A dissertation on the true Cythisus of the ancients, a Plant which may be successfully made use of for the Improvement of the most dry, barren Land. Also an Account of the great Profits which arise from sowing the Lucerne and Burning of Clay. By Stephen Switzer, Author of the Practical Fruit and Kitchen-Gardener.
Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745.Date: [1735]- Pictures
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A grass (Panicum species): seed head and stalk. Watercolour.
Reference: 22776i- Pictures
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Three grass flower-heads. Intaglio nature print, 19th century.
Reference: 28047i- Pictures
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A bugle flower (Ajuga reptans) and fescue grass (Festuca elatior). Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.Date: [1877-1900]Reference: 24499i- Books
Nōy tīrkkum arukampul / uruvākkam Cāklēṭ Puruṣōttamaṉ .
Puruṣōttamaṉ, Cāklēṭ.Date: 1994- Books
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A compendious method for the raising of the Italian brocoli, Spanish cardoon, celeriac, finochi, and other foreign kitchen-vegetables. As also an account of the la lucerne, st foyne, clover, and other grass-seeds. With the method of burning of clay, for the Improvement of Land, lately communicated to the Author by a Person of Worth and Honour of North-Britain, who has greatly experienced the same. By which it appears, that Burnt Clay is not only the cheapest but the best Discovery for the Improvement of Land (especially that which is cold and poor) ever yet produced. The fifth edition To which is added, an account of the success of the burning of clay, and of Mr Liveings's Manure; with several considerable Additions from the last Year's Experience. By Stephen Switzer, Author of the Practical Fruit and Kitchen-Gardener.
Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745.Date: 1731- Pictures
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Six grasses: fescues (Festuca species), foxtail grass (Alopecurus pratensis), meadow grasses (Poa species) and sweet vernal grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807.
Date: 15 August 1807Reference: 25548i- Pictures
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A field of grass with a row of poplar trees and a pair of white boxer shorts floating against a yellow sunset representing an advertisement for safe sex; Italian version of a series of Stop AIDS campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674625i- Pictures
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Quaking grass (Briza media): flowering stem, leaves and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1796.
Sowerby, James, 1757-1822.Date: 1 August 1796Reference: 24965i- Pictures
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A grass (Arundo arenaria) with an associated insect and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
Date: 1 Feb 1830Reference: 24030i- Pictures
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Barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea): seedheads and leafy stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 23416i- Pictures
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A man riding an ox through grass and shrub land. Watercolour.
Reference: 23635i- Pictures
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Old fir tree (Abies webbiana) with pendulous lichens. Watercolour, c.1856.
Date: 1854 to 1858Reference: 21741i- Pictures
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A fern frond, leaves and grasses framing a rectangular space. Nature print.
Reference: 23656i- Pictures
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Couch grass (Elymus repens) with an associated insect and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
Date: 1 May 1830Reference: 24048i- Pictures
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A bamboo plant: leafy stems and new shoots in grassland. Watercolour.
Reference: 23626i- Pictures
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A sugar cane plant (Saccharum officinarum), its flower and sections of stem, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 28057i- Pictures
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Five plants, including a grass, a sedge and a plant of the Boraginaceae family. Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
Date: 1853 [1854]Reference: 23771i