3 «(3) I have never attempted to propagate it by sed, but t always by 
roots. When a clump or tuft is dug out, it may be divided into as 
* many small divisione of roots as one pleases, and these are put down 
again in rows about three feet from one another, and the same 
.* which it is planted must be kept free from aes grass. When it is 
seven oreight years old, the roots should be beaten down with 
rooden mallets, or a plougl should be run through thero i 
the whole i 
It is not cultivated as a source of incom 
* or trade, so that I am unable to say where the roots may be bou ght, 
* or at what price. We got a small quantity of the roots originally 
rea 
ot, l SS 
stations, where the water oozed up from below and rotted id ser 
that it ben not grow there. A sloping site is probably the b 
When w started the mission here we had to pa Re 4 a 
de hits shes est SOME im order to twist it into rope or 
i to pay so much that led me to try and 
ours selves. PE pide runs to seed in the hot months, shortly 
y seas son, but these must be cut off and removed, or the 
ter 
esa ae i ety of native names, Bhabur grass has, from the 
se ascertaining its affinities, received an almost equal 
ones. Under the name of Pollinia eriopoda, it is 
in the Journal of the Linnean Society (vol. xx., pp. 409, 410), 
red and described in Hoo ka) s dodge Plantarum (tab. 1773) 
gustifolium, the 
Sea, about 200 : 
Coan 1 Islands consist of of the Grand Cayman, Little s Cayman, 
yman Di They in the Caribbean 
: do included under the Government 
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