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Otago Witness, Issue 2199, 23 April 1896, Page 7

I 85 MJ ATOM'S liiJESJES J!3g§* I AUTU SS™ We have tlie foltoTrirag Varieties in Stock : «m»"i ■•■ ■■■ i , : z ' m Swedea.-SUTXON'S crimson king Yellow Flesh.-SUTXON'S green top scotch White tfleslj.-suri.ws imperial green globe ELEPHANT " l^^x^^^SJF 3 - PURPLE TOP MAMMOTH ... HARP? PURPLE TOP FOBTERTQNS GREEN TOP „ EARLY SIX WEEKS turm&B nit in with aliberal dose of manure and fed off with sheep. Now nearly all the grasses have disappeared except a little cocksfoot, but the Fescue has spread all over the paddock, and is looking very well. I also saw the lawn in front of the Thamea wv ynf^£rt\hoUy n f^£rt\ hoUB l, at h ch&el *- Chewiags'fl Fescue was sown on Jt five years ago, together with some Poverty Bay ryegrass seed. The lawn is now a close, thick mat of Fescue, with only a plant 5f- Yorkshire fog shawing hewand thSS. Again affi ™f °!J™s$ aA tgF&toJ- wsw Bho1 T? * 1O ' a , c l e P ad< & ck , of I? 7 K0?.K 0 ?., 11 ™ 1 !' wh 2£ h ?£* 80W P lte recently with 151b Chewings's Fescue alone. It would have been better if sown with some clover as a protection, but nevertheleas it is thriving will and will KSSnf^S \$ S ° B « W . th i e paddock at Lichfield, where this Fescue is almost the only grass left, and it is evidently thriving. At Woodstock, Mr Rich's own place, I went over about 112 acres recently sown with about 151b CLeS Fescue and a little clover. It is a .first-class take all over, and there will be a thick sward very soon. Another paddock has been sown with turnips and fescue and shows a very good braird. Mr Rich is just about sowing 30001b Chewings's Fescue on a paddock he has prepared for it. Mr Rich imported a large quantity of Festuca Dunuscula some years ago, and sowed it on the Thames Valley Company's land. It came away very well, but grew a different plant from Chewings's Fescue, and moreover i* died out like the other grasses: Mr Kichhas teed every grass he.can think of. including the4>ard fescue, and none have stood in the land. Wherever he has eown Chewings's Fescue it has not only held it own, but has gradually Bpr^d over the land when the other grasses died out, of which I had ocular demonstration in the case of the paddock sown five years ago, with a splendid mixture of grasses, including only 21b Chewings's Fescue, and in which paddock the Fescue has now practically full possession, lam quite satisfied this Fescue is txactly what is wanted for the enormous tracts of poor land in the Waikato, Taupo, and other districts. , * i-uoocaiuuMi *3^C!^*!^Jfc_£JOL^^Lu Hyi^ JPlLriP^i§C2L*li§£!r '-* <d^_; <_T"!-_n& I invercargiul, gore, and _P i — ™ —■k^ wp • I DUNEDIN. - SOLES jgLGHEIiaj^S FOR SXTTTOM'S SE2ESI3S.