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more introduced to and known by the average seedsman and farmer. 

 Well, then, if we mention here as a fact, that it was not until 

 the fifties or sixties of last century, that the ideas of the trade 

 and farming underwent this metamorphosis and that it is only 

 from that time that the Natural Grasses got gradually introduced 

 to and found appreciation by the trade at large, it must be clear 

 to anybody, that very little trade had been done in these grasses 

 before then; and that there had consequently been very little 



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inducement for any-one in Holland, interested in the seed-business, 

 to take earnestly in hand a branch of that trade, which up till 

 then was far from being a lively or a remunerative-one; at least 

 for those not understanding that branch. 



Here, like in every other branch of commerce we have the three 

 stadia to go through: the first, that of an article being scarcely 

 known; the second, that of the public's attention being drawn by 

 some-one or several as the case may be, to the value and merits of 

 that particular article; and finally the third, that of it being tested 

 and, the results being satisfactory, its finding a regular and increas- 

 ing sale with a gradually extending production dependent thereon. 



