02 Australian Grasses. 



these Mr. Turner considers of the first importance on account of their drought-resisting 

 properties. The native grasses are briefly alluded to in the introduction. A work on these, 

 treated in the same as the one under review, would be a valuable companion handbook, 



find we trust will be forthcoming at no very distant date The book should 



have an extensive circulation, not only in Australia, but in the pastoral provinces of the 

 ether continents." The Bathurst Daily Times. 



" A very useful handbook on the forage-plants of Australia. . . . The illustrations 

 certainly make such works very much more useful to the ordinary student. The book 

 will be interesting to all who take an interest in the subject it treats of, \vhich, we may 

 add, is one of great importance to the country." The Northern Sto.r. 



" A most valuable publication on the forage-plants of Australia by F. Turner, F.L.S. 

 . ... It contains a full and perfect account of ninty-one forage-plants. The publi- 

 cation should engage the most earnest attention of all pastoralists, stockowners, and 

 agriculturists, and should result in increased attention being given to our valuable 

 indigenous fodder-plants." St. Mary's Gazette. 



"The climate of many parts of Australia is of a character which renders the cultivation 

 of recognised foreign plants impossible, and too much attention cannot therefore be paid 

 to the preservation and propagation of such forms of natural herbage as have proved, in 

 addition to their drought-resisting properties, to be of great nutritive value. It is with 

 the object of bringing the most important of such native plants before the notice of 

 interested people that the well-written volume of over ninety-one pages has been prepared. 

 It is illustrated by some ninety-one lithographic plates." Garden and Field. 



" This volume contains well-executed lithographic illustrations of some ninety plants 

 which serve as fodder to stock. The orders to which they belong are far more varied 

 than would occur to any botanist who has not given much attention to the matter. 

 Much information is given that is interesting from the point of view of the stockowner, 

 as well as of the botanist." The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia. 



