BY L. A. EERNAYS. 00 



I have no experience of the effect of frost upon this useful 

 fodder plant as there is none where I live ; but Baron Mueller 

 states that the roots can be protected in the ground against 

 light frosts by a thin covering of soil. Differing somewhat from 

 this opinion, I have the testimony of Mr. Soutter of the 

 Queensland Acclimatisation Society that, although Bowen Park 

 IS liable to six degrees of frost, the Guinea Grass there is not 

 affected in the slightest. 



I hope to see this valuable grass cultivated much more ex- 

 tensively than it is all along our coast line, and as far mland as 

 climate will permit ; feeling quite sure tliat no farmer 

 or planter, who has once given it a fair trial, will ever be 



without it. 



