354 Mr James Coutts Crawford on Fixing Sands. 



From time to time, and from year to year, the plan of 

 operation may have to be modified, and the old plantings 

 watched and filled up as required. All this requires a 

 careful man to look after matters. 



I am under the impression that although my plants 

 threw up seed stalks yearly, very few of the seeds ripened 

 until the plants attained a considerable age. Now an 

 enormous quantity of seed is annually produced, which 

 helps by vegetating to fill up gaps. 



It may be as well to recapitulate the plants used, viz.: — 

 Ammopliila arwidinacea, or common bent (J/arram, English; 

 Oycit, French), Elymus arenarius, Elymus giganteus. 



The reclamation of sandy tracts must under any 

 circumstances be an expensive operation, and possibly not 

 repaid by a direct return, but it may frequently be 

 desirable or even absolutely necessary to incur this outlay, 

 as adjoining land is always in danger of being overwhelmed 

 wdiile the sand remains in an exposed state. 



Note hi/ Editor. — In the Transactions and Proceedi7igs of 

 the New Zealand Institute, 1881, vol. xiv. p. 89, is a paper 

 by W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S., on the Sand Dunes of the 

 West Coast of the District of Wellington, which refers 

 to the successful cultivation by Mr Coutts Crawford at 

 Miramar Peninsula, and gives tlie following List of Plants 

 found upon the Sand Dunes of New Zealand : — 



Sandbindino Plants. 

 Of Primary Value. 



Coprosma acerosa, A. Cunn. 

 Convolvulus soldanella, Linn. 

 Pimelea arenaria, A. Cunn. 

 Lejitocarpiis simplex, A, Rich. 

 Carex piwiila, Thunb. 

 Hierochloe redolens, Labill. 



Of Secondary Value. 



Spinifex hirsutus, Labill. 

 Arundo conspicua, Forst. 

 Desmoschoenus spiralis. 

 Scedonorus littorah's, Palisot. 

 Galmia arenaria, Hook. fil. 



Hymenanthera crassifolia, Hook. 



"fiL 

 Plaijianthus divaricatus, Forst. 

 Haloragift alata, Jacq. 

 Tetragunia expansa, Murray. 



Aciphylla squarrosa, Forst. 

 Coprosma Baueriana, Endl. 

 Cyathodes acerosa, Br. 

 Chenopodium glaucum, Linn. var. 

 ambiguum. 



