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Excerpt from Illustrated Lecture on Green Manuring Green manure crops were used by the Ancients, the Romans using lupines which were sown in September and turned under in May for the benefit of the following crop. The use of lupines found its way into Germany in the middle of the nineteenth century and has proved an important factor in reclaiming the sandy lands of parts of Prussia. 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.