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nies to the Borough Council of Port mee for experiment 
n the n shifting sand-hummocks fronting the coast line of 
Port F iry. It has proved to be the most effectual sandstay ever 
las was Practical ery di of its value can be seen in the 
50 miles of sandhills mue between Warrnambool and Port 
ed by 
under 
the direction of Mr. 8. €— the park ranger. So complete has 
been the reclamation of the lands, that where a few years ago not 
a sign of vegetation was to be seen, there now exists a succulent 
grass eagerly devoured by cattle, and growing to a height o 
4 feet. Marram grass is practically Ar RER RRE 
cutting, or eating off only makes it thrive—while in exposed 
shifting sand it propagates as surely as in the most sheltered 
situations. 
The grass is planted in rows ata distance of s feet apart, the 
space between the plants sd least 2 f ape The depth to which 
hich ga 
twelve months' growth the plants are fit, for thinning out and 
transplanting. 
attle are not allowed to graze on the ary until the roots 
P 
ewt. covers one acre. The most favourable time for plants is 
from 1st May to end of July. us grass retains its vitality, and 
strikes root after being out of its sand-bed for three months or 
more. enema Leader, 2nd IDétéitibet, 189; 
Marra m grass commences to flower in November "with us. It 
flowers in July in England. 
The following account of the attempts to acclimatise the grass 
at the Cape are instructive :— 
8 a specimen plant, Ammophila was introduced some years 
ago into the Botanic Gardens , Cape Town, by Professor MacOwan, 
and seed obtained from Lincolnshire, Englan nd, was Posh on the 
D'Urban Road sands by Mr. Lis The grass is said to have 
grown well. It was naturally killed by the P Po rt Werde wattles 
sown with it, and it —— grim abandoned as a temporary 
stay in favour of the na grass 
Ai Eerste River ribns "56 ibs. of seed obtained from Vilmorin 
& Co., Paris, were sown in situ in 3. The seed vii imn 
only at the foot of the sandhill experimented upon, and from 
small patch, not much larger than a good-sized dining-table, 
650 bundles of thinnings were taken. ad have been trans- 
planted on one-sixth of an acre of sand, in rows 6 feet by 2 feet 
apart, in accordance with the en described below. Other 
two-year-old plants will enlarge the Marram Nursery to about 
half an acre, and one-year-old plants have aoi A tea thinned. 
The larger plants removed were fully 4 feet high, and thus, 
with the advantage of Cape Town refuse manure, have atiained 
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