Clifton Park System of Farming and Laying Down Land to Grass - A Guide to Landlords, Tenants, and Land-Legislators #223304

I have dedicated this book to my late really-to-be-lamented friend, Mr. Faunce De Laune of Sharsted Court, Kent, because I, in common with a vast number of landowners and farmers, owe him a great deal of gratitude for having, in his article "On Laying Down Land to Permanent Pasture," been the means of calling attention to the once deplorable condition of the British seed trade. This is sufficiently exemplified by a single quotation from the article alluded to, and in which Mr. De Laune says: - "I found that, however careful I was in my orders, and from whatever seed merchant I ordered my seed, the per centage of ryegrass, soft, woolly grass, and other bad grasses and weeds, was beyond all belief."