Australian Grasses. 59 



Opinions of the Press on the Indigenous Forage- 

 Plants of Australia" (non-grasses). 



BY THE SAME AUTHOK. 



" THE work contains no less than ninety-one engravings with descriptive letter-press of the 

 most valuable forage-plants in Australia, including all the famous salinous plants of the 



country To pastoralists and landowners generally this work must be of 



immense value, as by its aid the more valuable of our indigenous forage-plants can be 

 readily identified by any resident in the country. Both the Latin and common name of 

 each plant are given, so that the ordinary reader may not be mystified by high-sounding 

 Latin terms, to the exclusion of the more simple English names. Mr. Turner is to be 



congratulated on the excellence of this work Mr. Turner has a great work 



before him in collecting and describing the various economic and ornamental plants of 

 this country. The accuracy of detail and industry shown in collecting and describing 

 the forage-plants of Australia is an assurance that his future work will be practical, 



valuable, and accurate We have much pleasure in recommending Mr. 



Turner's able volume to the consideration of the landowners of Australia, fully believing 

 that they will receive much valuable information from its perusal." Town and Country 

 Journal. 



"A very useful work, by F. Turner, F.L.S., which has just been published under 

 the auspices of the Department of Agriculture, affords another proof of that gentleman's 

 labours in the direction of forage-plants indigenous in Australia. It is a subject which 

 has engaged the attention of the writer for the last fifteen years, and his various papers 

 and pamphlets in connection with it (especially the paper read before the Australasian 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 1890, and his 'Census of the Grasses of New 

 South Wales,' 1890) prove that he has studied the vegetation of Australia to good effect. 

 . . . . Mr. Turner's book may be regarded as a valuable contribution to the study 

 of our forage-plants ; and being got up in a popular manner it seems to meet the require- 

 ments of those who have not the leisure to follow the technicalities of systematic botany. 

 His introduction is worthy of attentive perusal, as it clearly shows the value of native 

 pastures, the necessity of preserving them, and the intimate connection there is between 

 the forage-plants of Australia and some of our most important exports, such, for instance, 

 as high-class wool, frozen meat, &c. The author also, in his enumeration of the native 

 grasses, points out the various purposes for which the species may be utilised and the 

 localities for which they are best adapted, thereby indicating a very practical knowledge 

 of the subject." Sydney Mail. 



" The subject is one of considerable economic and commercial interest, and it is time 

 that something was done to direct attention in some systematic way to the value of these 

 plants. . . . The numerous illustrations, many of them representing plants that 

 have never before been so reproduced, lend a special value to the book, which has been 

 issued with the special approval of the late Minister for Agriculture. "Sydney Morning 

 Herald. 



"Pastoralists and farmers have good cause to thank Mr. Fred. Turner, the botanist, for 

 the large amount of excellent information he has compressed within the covers. Close 

 upon 100 of the chief fodder-plants and shrubs of Australia are described, and the 

 description in each case is accompanied by a carefully-drawn engraving of the specimen. 



The printed matter is thoroughly readable ; it is more than that, it is 



interesting. All the facts necessary for a competent understanding of the subject under 

 discussion are plainly and concisely set down. The book bristles with information 

 regarding the uses, habits, and habitats of the forage-plants of the continent. The 

 introductory pages, in which the subject of fodder and fodder-plants are dealt with in a 

 general manner, form a valuable feature of the book." Sydney Dally Telegraph. 



