United States or Guernsey ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Twenty-four pounds is usually sown on an acre when intended for the sole crop, and sown under corn. POTERIUM Sanguisorba. BURNET. This plant grows in calcareous soils, and is in some places much esteemed. On the thin chalky soils near Alresford in Hampshire, I have observed it to thrive better than almost any other plant that is cultivated.
Bryant in his Flora Diaetetica says that many people eat the tenders talks of this plant boiled as asparagus. BURNET. Sanguisorba officinalis. The young leaves form a good ingredient in salads. They have somewhat the flavour of cucumbers. BUTTERWORT. Pinguicula vulgaris.
Twenty-five pounds per acre are sown alone: eight pounds mixed with other seeds would be sufficient to give a good plant on the ground. SANGUISORBA officinalis. GREAT CANADA BURNET. Cattle will eat this when young; and it has been supposed to be a useful plant, but I do not think it equal to Burnet. It is perennial, and is often found wild, but has not yet been cultivated. TRIFOLIUM pratense.
The rose nearly sinks into a grass in the sanguisorba; but the formative spirit does not the less clearly separate the ear of wheat from the dog-rose, and oscillate with tremulous constancy round the central forms of both, having each their due relation to the mind of man. The great animal kingdoms are connected in the same way.
This is also a useful variety of the cabbage species, which is very productive, forming a large number of beautiful small close-headed cabbages on their high stalks in the winter season. The seeds are sown in March. BURNET. Poterium Sanguisorba. The young leaves of this plant are eaten with other tender herbs in the spring, and are considered a wholesome addition to mustard, cress, corn-salad, &c.
Word Of The Day