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16 feet in diameter in a single season. The crop, calculated on the 
basis a weighing the cut from a small area, should reach 20 tons 
of n feed, or 5 tons of dry from an acre, and probably two such 
readi 
and hogs eat the green plant freely. The plant should be tried on 
alkali soils everywhere, in order that its climatic and other adaptations 
may be definitely determined. Plants may be grown by sowing the 
seed in boxes or garden beds, A atis very lightly. and e Pee out 
the seedlings several feet apart, when a few inches spots 
This is the surest way to get the sit established, although if the seed 
on the surface of the alkali soil before a rain, it germinates 
readily when the heat is adequate. When the plant once gets a hold 
on the soil, it covers the ground very thickly from self-sown seeds, 
which are produced in abundance. Seeds are sent at 5 cents per 
packet, post paid." 
Professor MacOwan writes in the Agricultural Journal of Cape 
Colony for April 30th :—‘ It is worthy of note that Australian salt- 
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spread fav and wide up country by the etifighitened ud unpaid agency of 
Mr. Edward Alston. It will astonish our Californian friends to hear 
that the salt: bush was actually petitioned against in a certain brack 
district of Cape Colony, and the Gov ernment’ wus M to jen: it along 
with burweed for extirpation because it spread so fast." 
Atriplex vesicaria, Howard,—A bushy shrub covered with scaly 
tomentum. Central and South-eastern Australia, According to 
Mueller “ One of the most fattening and most relished of all the dwarf 
pastoral salt-bushes of Australia, holding out in the utmost extremes 
drought, and not scorched even b sirocco-like blasts. Its vast abun- 
here A, vestcart 
cu the ground for enormous stretches. With other woody 
cies it is also easily multiplied from cuttings, but, as remarked b 
Naudia, it produces thousands of fruits in less than three Miete after 
sowing, and as stated by Millardet it has become (of late years since 
its introduction) the marvel of the Delta of the Rhone, in the South of 
France.” (Cultivated at Kew.) 
Other Australian salt-bushes are ee of Kochia. In these the 
leaves are narrow and fleshy, sometimes half round. "The fruits are 
surmounted with the almost Bi im sae calyx with a winged 
order. This character easily distinguishes the Kochias from other 
salt-bushes. There are two Australian species of Kochia specially 
valued for fodder purposes. 
ochia eriantha, F. v. Muell. A stout shrub with the branches 
covered with a woolly tomentum. Mueller says :—* Proved an excellent 
fodder herb for sheep on the hot and dry pastures of Central 
Australia, where the temperature in summer reaches 120? F. in the 
shade, and in the winter falls 27^ F. (Rev. H. Kempe). Several 
other Australian species of Kochia afford excellent pasture fodder. 
