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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10422, 21 April 1897, Page 5

Writing about the salfcbush of Australia, a correspondent of the American Agriculturist states M follows :—This is a remarkably pertinacious plant that succeeds admirably in the dry alkali soils of the went, where nothing «lw usually grows, It might thrive in ordinary dry soils at tho east lacking in soda or alkali, bub it is possible Hmt it would become a (treab pest) where conditions were too favourable for growth. For alkali •oils it is ono of the most useful plants, and has converted many acres of otherwise useless land in California into productive fields for forage. The Dundee Advertiser had been publishing a series of articles on small truib in Belgium. One of the articles shows how, by labour and diligently tilling small areas, tho peasantry have converted what is naturally a very poor soil into productive land. Strawberries and bixh fruit are largely grown, together with onions and other vegetable*, The English market », of course, largely catered, for;' and ,some Scotch j»ra, it it hinted, has a basil of Belgian carrot, bub it ii • question whether the fruit would not b* ohoapw tuau (be carrot.