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weather grass, no heat or drought seeming to stop its luxuriant growth, and 
in various kinds of soil it flourished. It was vigorously growing while the 
Loliums and other British grasses planted in its neighbourhood were dry 
and withered. It is therefore for these and other reasons one of the best 
summer grasses. 
Panicum hispidulum is another good summer grass. It grows indige- 
nously in Queensland. The seed I obtained was sown in October, and 
came up in November, and continued to grow rapidly during the hottest and 
dryest weather, stoling out and covering the ground between the drill, and 
when allowed to perfect its seed producing an abundance. It continued 
growing unceasingly all the time the hot weather lasted. Tt becomes dor- 
mant during the winter and cold weather, but appears again in the spring, 
and proves itself a valuable summer grass. 
Milium multiflorum.—The seed of this grass should be sown in October. 
It comes up in about a month, grows rapidly, keeping green and abundant 
in the dryest season. If not fed or cut down, forms large tufts two feet six 
inches to three feet high ; all through the summer it is growing, and even at 
the latter end of May and June, when the cold wet weather sets in, it still 
continued to grow; therefore besides being an excellent summer grass it will 
be useful in the winter. 
Elymus condensatus can also be highly recommended. | It is the Bunch 
Grass of British Columbia, and in its native home it is thought more of 
than any other grass. The mules and horses of the travellers and packers 
will work and keep in excellent condition, getting quite fat, while working 
all day and turned out at night to feed on this grass, and in winter 
will serape off the snow to get at the withered tufts, The seed of this 
grass I received from many places and persons, amongst others from Mr. 
Anderson Henry. It was sown in November, and came up immediately. 
During the first year it does not make much progress. In the second year 
it commences to grow in August, and grows quickly during the summer, 
and if not cut or grazed its herbage is two or three feet long, and if allowed 
to perfect its seed-stems they will be four to six feet high. It requires more 
moisture than the previous grasses, but with occasional moisture and heat 
is very luxuriant, nutritious, and fattening, and well worthy of extensive 
cultivation, and will prove one of the best grasses the pastoralists can sow 
to meet the demands of a large quantity of stock, as it will fatten them 
quickly. 
The Elymus cristatus is also a good grass. The seed I sowed in April, 
soon came up, and kept green and healthy through the hottest weather. The 
foliage is from nine inches to a foot high; seed stems about eighteen inches 
in height, and until the frost comes it continues to grow and keep the 
pastures green, 
