ROYAL GARDENS, | KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF . 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
Nos. 115—116. | JULY aud AUGUST. [1896, 
DXXI.—SHEEP-BUSHES AND SALT-BUSHES. 
In the warmer and drier parts of the world lands devoted to pastoral 
industries are not always clothed with the grassy vegetation familiar in 
plants other than grasses, but which are no less valuable. The 
experience gained in South Africas and Australia admits of practical 
application in other parts of the world, especially w adn as will be seen, 
the soil is intolerant of any other kind of vegetaiior 
e following information has been put e to meet the 
demands of correspondents. As long ago as 369, Kew took steps to 
bring the subject under the notice of the colonies. ( See Kew Report, 
1882, pp. 21, 22.) 
SukEr-Busnrs. 
In Museum No. III. of the Royal Gardens, a large c ontain 
series of plants belonging to various nat tural orders, fllistrating the 
vegetation of the Karroo region of South : 
The most important of these as a fodder plant is d virgata, 
belonging to the great order of Composite, and a Us 
common mu sy (Tanacetum vulgare) and doctae (Artem dia). 
Professor MacOwan writing to Mr. J. F. Duthie, Superintendent of 
the Coverite Botanical Gardens, eet in 1884, gave the 
following account of aa bec sheep-bu 
ground, and i e we 
larity whieh renders the piit so valuable, for as our farmers eben 
the farms with sheep, and do not even keep the stock off ce 
for vitiediy in their turn, the cm is as id into Hintiieeéiie sheep 
tracks, each of which becomes a swift running waterway in the rainy 
season. Thus a badly-managed ficti presents a curious hummocky 
appearance, as if the bushes were each perched on a little eminence with 
bare soil around. The Pentzia,if only the stock be kept off, corrects 
this very soon. The arcuate branches touch the curved hollow of the 
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