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The following. noie.on the use of. Bahama grass for making lawns in 
India is taken from Firminger’s: Manual. of Gardening for Bengal and 
Upper India [Caleutta, 1874] p. 26 : :— The grass principally used for 
lawns in this country is that called Doob-grass ( Cynodon Dactylon), a 
plant of trailing habit, not growing high, and when in vigorous growth 
of a soft dark green hue. It thrives where scarcely any, other kind will, 
and delights in the edges of frequented highways. The spot it seems to 
like especially is where brick and.lime rubbish has been thrown and 
p MCA down hard. It will also. grow in the poor. soil, beneath tbe 
hade of trees, where other grasseg,crow but scantily, if at. all. When 
vc ACHT for lawns a sufficient quantity ean easily be collected from the 
roadside and waste places. The piece of ground intended for lawn 
should be well dug, and then "us perfectly level and smooth. Drills 
should then be drawn over it.a foot apart, in babies little :pieces of the 
roots should. be planted. out. at the. distance of;half-a-foot from each 
other, and the ground afterwards watered emp TRE till,the grass 
innecessary, 
season. is indispensable, as- otherwise ithe grass vele soon become 
seorched up and 
* A more expeditions an Nery s uccessful-plan of laj ing down a lawn, 
i is to pul up a quantity-of gr. sis thet the roots, chop it 
tolerably fine, mix it well in a eompost of mud Cx about the consistency 
of mortar, and spread this out thinly over the piece of ground where the 
lawn is required. In a few days the gmat will spring: m with ‘great 
regularity over the plot.” 
Eragrostis abyssinica, Link.—A slender i ne gruss, known in 
Abyssinia as * Teff,” “ Ttheff,” or **'Thaff^ Tt is indigenous to the 
higher lands, and is cultivated for the sake of its grain all over Abys- 
sinia. There are several varities, some depending on the height of the 
plant, others on the — According ‘to Richard, there are green, 
white, red, and purple Teffs. The grain crop requires four months to 
ripen. | In good years it itdi 40 times the:seed, and only 20 times 
in bad years our 
make * an Ce eet fine hay ” in a British ate and to meinte i in six 
or eight weeks from the time of sowing. “For this purpose teff is 
well worth cultivating. ~ It is cleaner and brighter looki than. P 
other grass, and is readily eaten by cattle and. horses. "Th reports 
from Fastis and India are equally favourable. The value of this 
plant for fodder purposes is exceptionally high. Its chief merits in 
i i mature, and its suitability to 
thrive in dry, sandy regions, where few other, grasses would flourish 
equally well. 
In the Proceedings of the Agri.-Hort. Society of India, 1888, 
p. Ixxii., bie following note appeared :—“ The... seed,. of this new 
cereal was received from Kew, and was distributed as ir in. the 
p OR oe of May last. Mr. C. C. Stevens, Commissioner of Chota 
Nagpore, now writes: * You will rn ni havi ing given me a small 
. acket of seed of. “tcheff” for experiment, . I gave it to. the, Rajah of 
Jashpore, who had it sown in two or three different localities. . , He has 
