2017苜蓿筆記6

6. 書中第47頁引用一張苜蓿的插圖，說明如下：

Walter Harte studies farming methods on the continent while accompanying a young pupil on his Grand Tour of Europe. In the second of his Essays on Husbandry (1764) he addressed the “culture of Lucerne by Transplantation.” He was a keen advocate of this handsomest of all the grasses which are (improperly) called artificial.

這本書(Essays on Husbandry (1764))已有線上免費電子文本 Essays on Husbandry (1764)：https://archive.org/details/essaysonhusband00hartgoog

十八世紀文本資料庫有有收藏此書。其中插圖在第190頁後，可惜電子文本的影像不是很清楚。所以我從書中的插圖翻拍照片一張(如下)，這張圖的最大特色是畫出苜蓿長一星期和五星期的對照圖。

Husbandry的解釋：

1.

a. The act or practice of cultivating crops and breeding and raising livestock; agriculture.

b. The application of scientific principles to agriculture, especially to animal breeding.

2. Careful management or conservation of resources; economy.

Walter Harte (1709–1774) was an English poet and historian. He was a friend of Alexander Pope, and a noted writer on husbandry.