ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 127.] JULY. [1897. 
DLXIV.—MARRAM GRASS. 
(Ammophila arundinacea, Host.) 
Marram grass is a native of the shores of Europe and North 
Africa. Itis the most important grass for binding moving drift 
sands. It may be propagated either from portions of the roots or 
from seed, and is the subject on this account of occasional 
enquiry. It has been successfully introduced into Australia, on 
the recommendation of the late Sir Ferd. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., 
and proved most satisfactory. The following detailed account of 
it, prepared eri * H. Maiden, F.L.S., Director of the Botanic — 
Gardens at New South Wales, is taken from the 
Agricultural y cem for New South Wales, vol. vi., pp. 7-12 :— 
committee of the Legislature, appointed in 1852 to enquire 
into the means of preserving Cape Cod Harbour, in Massachusetts, 
in speaking of the beach between the ocean on the north an 
channel of East Harbour, which is all that prevents the sea from 
breaking over into Cape Cod Harbour, says : :—This tract consists 
into the channel of East Harbour, and is carried by a strong - 
current into the north-west part of Cape Cod Harbour. The 
ocean on the north is wasting this narrow beach away in every 
storm, and the current in East Harbour channel undermining and 
destroyi ing it on the south. s decay of the beach has been on 
the increase for several years; it has narrowed within seven or 
eight Lee by the tide hat s runs through East Harbour cbannel, 
from eight to ten rods. ere the mail stage travelled only one 
year since, is now the channel, ws 6 feet of water at low tide, 
and egies 12 to 14 feet at high w 
The first effort made by the Bete for the preservation of this - 
important harbour appears to have been in 1714. The town was 
incorporated i in 1727, and was at that time a place of some extent ; 
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