 | United States. Patent Office - Patents - 1855 - 832 pages
...chaff and given to cattle, either alone or mixed with other food. The purpose for which this plant is generally employed, and for which its creeping,...in an eminent degree, is for binding loose sands, when sown with the Arundo arenaria, to prevent the encroachment of the sea. Sea Reed, (Arundo arenaria,)... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - Agriculture - 1855 - 654 pages
...chaff and given to cattle, either alone or mixed with other food. The purpose for which this plant is generally employed, and for which its creeping matted roots fit it iu an eminent degree, is for binding or consolidating loose sands, when sown with the Arundo arenaria,... | |
 | Francis Peyre Porcher - Botany - 1863 - 644 pages
...It is too hard and coarse to be eaten by animals, unless cut up. "The purpose for which this plant is generally employed, and for which its creeping,...it in an eminent degree, is for binding loose sands when sown with the sea-reed (Arundo arenaria), to prevent the encroachment of the sea. The world renowned... | |
 | Francis Peyre Porcher - Botany - 1863 - 640 pages
...It is too hard and coarse to be eaten by animals, unless cut up. "The purpose for which this plant is generally employed, and for which its creeping,...it in an eminent degree, is for binding loose sands when sown with the sea-reed (Ancndo arenaria), to prevent the encroachment of the sea. The world renowned... | |
 | John Henderson - Grasses - 1875 - 252 pages
...which this grass is generally employed and for which its creeping matted toots fit it in an eminently degree, is for binding loose sands and preventing...be met with growing naturally in such situations. This grass was introduced by the Patent office, and cultivated in different parts of the country. CHAPTER... | |
 | Lawson Seed and Nursery Company, David Syme - Forage plants - 1877 - 98 pages
...our domesticated animals, owing, no doubt, to its excessive hardness and coarseness. The E purpose for which E. arenarius is generally employed, and...an eminent degree, is for binding loose sands, and thus to repel the encroachments of the sea, and to prevent the adjoining cultivated land from being... | |
 | Francis Peyre Porcher - History - 1991 - 2254 pages
...It is too hard and coarse to be eaten by animals, unless cut up. "The purpose for which this plant is generally employed, and for which its creeping, matted roots fit it in an eminent degree, is tor binding loose sands when sown with the sea-reed (Arundo arenaria), to prevent the encroachment... | |
 | United States - 1855 - 612 pages
...chaff and given to cattle, either alone or mixed with other food. The purpose for which this plant is generally employed, and for which its creeping,...in an eminent degree, is for binding loose sands, when sown with the Arundo arenaria, to prevent the encroachment of the sea. Sea Reed, (Arundo arenaria,)... | |
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Davy found to contain one-third of its weight of sugar, hence called the " sugar-cane of Great Britain." It is too hard and coarse to be eaten by animals, unless cut up. "The purpose for which this plant is generally employed, and for which its creeping,... 