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or drought, and I feel certain would thrive in many parts of these 
hills, where nothing else of any value as a fodder would succeed. 
The plants are coming, into flower, and will probably yield a quantity 
* of seed by the autumn.’ 
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^ 
. 1882. Extract FROM KEW Report. 
Adelaide.—Dr. Schomburgk reports :—“I must again iere 
recommend to the squatter the *'l'agasaste, which has found a 
genial elimate in South Australia. 'The dry season has not Vi 
the slightest effect on the plants. If the seed be sown on the runs it 
would soon become acelimatized, and would stock them with a profit- 
able shrub capable of withstanding the severest drought. Although 
1 offered seed of the * Tagasaste* for distribution, only a few appli- 
* cations have been made in South emit ia, but a large number wer 
received from the neighbouring colonie 
In 1886 the merits of songs were again brought into notice 
(оъ the Foreign Office 
British CONSULATE, TENERIFFE, to FOREIGN OFFICE. 
My Lorp Teneriffe, September 1, 1886. 
Dr. VICTOR PEREZ, a Spanish Бранко residing in this island, 
who devotes much of his time to agricultural pursuits, mentioning to me — 
the suitability and nutritive qualities of a certain kind o the 
Уз pn proliferus, varietas," and highly recommending it as an all the 
year round food for horses and cattle, I obtained from him a sample 
Жанын рар in a canvas bag) and descriptions herewith enclosed 
r hay, which, in the interest of the trade in England, and 
in pursuance ‘of the Foreign Office Circular of 31st July rm I beg leave 
to submit to your Lordship as a commercial item for the information 
of Chambers of Commerce and others — in such matters. 
e, &c. 
piam Majesty's Ses J. Ноттох Dupuis, 
Secretary of State, Foreign 
Foreign Office, London, 
Description of the TaGasaste by Dr. Victor PEREZ. 
shrub, a native of the Island of Palma, the precise site where it U ne 
ger originally being on the hills above the celebrated Chapel of Our = 
ly de las 
Nieves, at a height of one thousand metres Саев Be = 
ix ҹи evel, ia 
'Taken from there to other parts of that island by native farmers, E 
soon obtained great repute for feeding cattle. 
In 
troduced into Teneriffe by Dr. “Victor Pres he made Кош. its | 
properties in a pamphlet published in 1865, © Apuntaciones sobre el 
Tagasaste por el Dr. Victor Perez, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1865.” 
Since then Dr. Perez has Эре, a special snl of e pent and has 
published in 1867 and 1879 the results of his o 
A 
t present its suitability as green food for енче, is ола, and й 
‘is certainly superior to any other known. During the last two ru T 
