10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUITCH GRASS»
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quitch grass in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Gramina Britannica; Or Representations of the British ...
TRI. TIC. UM. TRITICUM. REPENS.{SP¢¢PIML. Beardless. Quitch-grass. SPEC.
CHAR. Florets without aristœ, or with an arista not longer than the iloret valve;
leaves broad and flat. TarrrcuM repens is a well known plant under various
names, ...
2
Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and ...
This is not to be collected from tin letters before us ; but some useful, and more
botanical, knowh dge is certainly contained in? the correspondence of Mr. Tannei
: and Dr. Richardson. On Fiorin Grass, Quitch Grass, S,c- #.V Mr. Wright, of Exton,
...
3
CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific ...
1993. in English: couch, twitch, couch grass, couch wheatgrass, English couch
grass, English couch, coutch, scutch, quick grass, whickens, wiry grass, quitch
grass, witchgrass, twitch grass, wheat grass, quack grass, quackgrass, dog grass,
...
Umberto Quattrocchi, 2006
Dog-grass, quick-grass, quack-grass, quitch- grass, scutch-grass, twitch-grass,
witch-grass, wheat-grass, Chandler's grass, creeping wheat-grass, devil's-grass,
durfa-grass, Dur- fee-grass, Dutch-grass, Fin's grass, quake-grass. (Fig. 9.)
Range ...
5
The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil
This is now most commonly done by putting on the scarifier, which is in general
use throughout the district; the land being again crossed by the same, and
afterwards worked by lighter harrows until the quitch-grass is ready for being got
off It ...
6
Advice to shepherds and owners of flocks: on the care and ...
A. It has produced an excellent effect upon meadows of lucern, trefoil, quitch
grass, ray grass, sheep grass,* burnet and woad ; but in saintfoin meadows this
plant has been known to die in places where sheep had been folded : on the
contrary ...
Daubenton (Louis-Jean-Marie, M.), 1811
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The Navel of the Demoness : Tibetan Buddhism and Civil ...
Sixty days after planting the fields [with buckwheat], for a period of three days the
quitch grass in the fields may be [collected], but only by pulling with bare hands,
not by cutting with sickles. To judge by its subject matter, this subclause was ...
University of Oxford Charles Ramble Lecturer in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Oriental Institute, 2007
The second consists largely of quitch-grass, the very worst of all, and purslain or
pusley, which Charles Dudley Warner has immortalized in his charming book, "
My Summer in a Garden." The roots of quitch- grass are as strong as steel and
run ...
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The New Genesee Farmer and Gardener's Journal
Quitch Grass. — Mb. Editor— Some of your correspondents have been striving to
rid themselves and their neighbors of that troublesome weed, quitch grass. Now, I
happen to know, from experience, one of the easiest and most profitable ...
John J. Thomas, M. B. Bateham, 1840
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An Essay on the Archaiology [sic] of Popular English Phrases ...
Quick, quich, quitch, couch are the same word in different forms of spelling with
us. We say, " the quick and the dead," for the living and the dead. And couch"
grass is spelt quich-grass and quitch-grass, and is as the grass pre-eminently
gifted ...
