Excerpt from A Manual of the Grasses and Forage-Plants Useful to New Zealand, Vol. 1 The object of this Manual is to place before the practical farmer, in a manner as simple and as free from technical terms as possible, a copious digest of the fullest information available regarding the various grasses and forage-plants best suited for New Zealand. It is proposed to divide the work into three Parts. Part I. will treat of those species which have been or should be introduced from Britain and other countries; Part II., of those kinds that are indigenous to New Zealand; and Part III. will give the particulars of any special experiments of a practical nature which have been made concerning the cultivation as well as respective values of both imported and native kinds for pasture or fodder. As each Part will be distinct in itself, it will in the first place be published separately as soon as it is got ready for the printer. 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.

Volumes 33-38, Section B. include 1949-1955 of New Zealand geological abstracts, published by the New Zealand Geological Survey.

The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies of food and raw material, so all over the Empire indigenous plants were replaced with English grasses to provide the worked up products of pasture - meat, butter, cheese, wool, and hides. In New Zealand this process was carried to an extreme, with forest cleared and swamps drained. How, why and with what consequences did the transformation of New Zealand into these empires of grass occur? 'Seeds of Empire' provides both an exciting appraisal of New Zealand's environmental history and a long overdue exploration of the significance of grass in the processes of sowing empire.