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in two years, from seed, a growth equal to three-year-old trans- 
plants at Port Fairy. That Marram grass is not readily raised 
from seed appears to be shown in the demand made upon the 
Victorian plant supplies by other Australian colonies, Africa, and 
ia; but once germinated it seems t Z e 
actual yearly increase is not stated in the Port Fairy report. From 
the prolific gr f the limited number of plants at the Eerste 
iver, it is probable that, favourable situations, and with 
manure, it will quadruple itself annually. 
- Ina few years thinnings should be available for distribution. 
To avoid heavy transport charges on large quantities of plants, 
probably the best plan would be to form a small nucleus planta- 
ion of one or two acres at a sheltered spot near the sands to be 
reclaimed. If such a plantation of 2 acres in one year doubled 
itself only, in six years sufficient plants would have been produced 
to reclaim 128 acres of sand. The probability is, however, that 
e increase would be more rapid. 
1 ndary, 
protected, whereas an inland sand might require fencing on three 
or more sides. : - S 
| , a total cost of £4 5s. per acre is 
Eg at, and on 320 acres would cost £1,360 to protect and 
plant. ERE 
If a plough were used for drawing a planting furrow, and 
closing it again, the cost might be considerably reduced —(Jowrnal, 
Department of Agriculture, Cape Town, 26th July, 1894). 
This grass has been extensively planted by the New South 
Wales Department of Agriculture at the gand-drift at Newcastle, 
in conjunction with the Maritime Pine (Pinus maritima), and the 
vexed question of how to deal with this drift, which, in times 
gone by, has been such a source of expense and anxiety, appears 
to in ir way for settlement. The grass is flourishing 
splendidly, the area under the grass is increasing year by year, 
is an extract from a letter received from a correspondent supplied 
by the department, with specimens of the grass for experimental 
urposes :— 
“I beg to report on the success of the experiment to grow 
Marram grass at Shell Beach, Middle Harbour, where the rootlets 
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