Excerpt from Clifton Park System of Farming and Laying Down Land to Grass: A Guide to Landlords, Tenants, and Land-Legislators 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." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.