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affording winter feed when all tlie other grasses have been cut off by frost ; 

 increasing a great deal too fast jinless the ground be well drained. — Boys. 



Altitude 500 feet j thrives everywhere ; flowers second week in 

 December ; iiseful in spring, etc. ; do not think it stands drought quite so well 

 as some others ; stock do not prefer it ; resists fi'ost very well ; is increasing^ 

 and easy of production. — Dixon. 



19. Avena flavescens. Golden Bristle grass. — Altitude 60 feet ; thrives on 

 dry soil ; flowers in December ; is a useful aiitumn grass, and resists drought 

 well, but stock do not like it ; is on the increase; it appears to kill other grasses ; 

 paddocks that have been sown down any time almost invariably get overrun 

 with it. — Glyde. 



20. Avena elatior. Large Oat-grass. — It is a great weed. — Dixon. 



21. Ceratochloa unioloides. Prairie grass. — Altitude 500 feet; do not 

 think it will be permanent ; stock like it very much, and it resists frost very 

 well, but is decreasing. — Dixon. 



Altitude 60 feet ; it thrives on dry soil ; flowers in December ; is 

 a useful autumn grass, and resists drought well ; stock very fond of it ; 

 stands frost well ; is on the increase. There is great difference of opinion 

 with regard to this gi'ass. I had a field of it ; it did well first year, second 

 year nothing ; ploughed it up and put in wheat, the grass came up in the 

 stubble better than ever. — Glyde. 



ISToTE BY Mr. Dixon. — I take it for granted that a paddock intended for 

 permanent pasture must be laid down with permanent pasture grasses, and 

 must not on any account be broken up again, as it requires a great number of 

 years to get these grasses established ; light stocking should be a rule. My 

 replies must be taken relatively. 



Remarhs on Appendix C By A. Duncan. 



As will be seen in the tabulated reports furnished by Messrs. Dixon, Boys, 

 and Glyde, the great majority of grasses, of which information was asked for, 

 have been tried in this province, and all have been more or less favourably 

 spoken of with the exception of the two Avenas, and the Foa nemoralis and 

 P. nemoralis sempervirens. Respecting the Avenas, it is probable that these 

 grasses have been confounded with others that are to a certain extent like 

 them, if observed casually. 



Mr. Glyde evidently confounds the Avena flavescens with the Bromus mollis, 

 or else the Bromus secalinus, commonly termed Goose or Brome grasses. Mr. 

 Dixon, on the other hand, names the same grass Trisetum flavescens (which is 

 the name it goes under in commerce), but says he has been " unable to make it 

 out in the plot." Mr. Dixon, however, says the Avena elatior is "a great 

 weed," evidently confounding it with the Bromi. 



