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| Web URL(s): | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35190892
Last checked: August 24, 2018 |
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| Material Type: | Book |
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| Monographic Author(s): | Sinclair, George |
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| Author Affiliation: | Gardener, His Grace the Duke of Bedford, and Corresponding Member of the Caledonian Horticultural Society of Edinburgh |
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| Monograph Title: | Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, 1816. |
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| Publishing Information: | London, England: printed by B. McMillan |
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| Edition: | [1st] |
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| # of Pages: | 393 |
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| Collation: | [6], lxvi, [1], 320 pp. |
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| Related Web URL: | http://tic.lib.msu.edu/TIC_Annual_Report_2011.pdf#page=18
Notes: Item discusses the significance of this work within the turfgrass literature. |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Grass gardens; Species profile
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| Facility Names: | Woburn Abbey, in Bedfordshire, England |
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Library of Congress
Subject Headings: | Woburn Abbey; Grasses; Forage plants; Weeds |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also [Another edition], 1824, R=205550. R=205550
See also 2nd edition, 1825, R=110401. R=110401
See also 3rd edition, 1826, R=110405. R=110405
See also 4th edition, [1838], R=205785. R=205785
See also 5th edition, 1869, R=205466. R=205466
See also related article, "On cultivating a collection of grasses in pleasure-grounds or flower-gardens", The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement (Louden's Gardener's Magazine), 1(1&2), p. 26-29, 112-116, R=110339. R=110339
See also discussion piece about this item in historical context, "Charles Darwin and Biodiversity", R=110352. R=110352
See also article discussing this work, "Darwin and the first ecological experiment," Science, 25 January, 2002, 295(5555), R=110410. R=110410 |
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| Note: | Figures
Tables
Maps
Includes index; pp. 317-320
Includes 123 mounted specimens
Includes 14 pp. seed samples
Includes fold out map titled "Plan of the Hortus Gramineus or Grass Garden, for Woburn Abbey, 1817" placed between p. xlvi and p. 1
"Illustrated with Dried Specimens of the Plants upon which these Experiments have Been Made and Practical Observations on their Natural Habits, and the Soils Best Adapted to their Growth; Pointing Out the Kinds Most Profitable for Permanent Pasture, Irrigated Meadows, Dry or Upland Pasture, and the Alternate Husbandry; Accompanied with the discriminating Characters of the Species, and Varieties."
"'The soil offers inexhaustible resources, which, when properly appreciated and employed, must increase our wealth, our population, and our physical strength.--Discoveries made in the cultivation of the earth, are not merely for the time and country in which they are developed, but they may be considered as extending to future ages, and as ultimately tending to benefit the whole human race; as affording subsistence for generations yet to come; as multiplying life, and not only multiplying life, but likewise providing for its enjoyment.' Davy."
"'To the Most Noble John Duke of Bedford, &c. &c. &c. &c. The Following Account of the Results of Experiments instituted by his Grace, which is indebted, For any Merit if may be found to possess, to the truly condescending, and indulgent manner with which the first imperfect essays of the Author in these Researchers, were received by His Grace; And To His Grace's Personal Instructions, most liberal, kind, and unwearied encouragement, bestowed on the efforts of an humble Individual, anxious to prove himself, in some measure, worthy of the trust reposed in him, and of the signal opportunity of devoting those leisure hourse which his Horticultural Duties permitted, to obtain and communicate Useful Knowledge in a branch of the most important of the Arts; Is gratefully inscribed, By His Grace's Most obliged, Most obedient, And devoted humble Servant, George Sinclair.' Woburn Abbey, June 25, 1816."
"June 25"
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Sinclair, George. 1816. Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis. [1st]. ed. [6], lxvi, [1], 320 pp. London, England: printed by B. McMillan. |
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