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Otago Witness, Issue 2203, 21 May 1896, Page 7

We bare the foiflowSeag Varieties in giocßt : Swede*.— BUTTON'S CRIMSON KING Yellow FIcsII. —BUTTON'S GREKN TOP SCOTCH Whit© flricsh.- BUTTON'S IMPERIAL GREEN GLOBE ' - • ! £lE A P M hX - S^gull^H^RTD 1 " 0 ™ " gi^S?RSyKS ot « ?elfTti TToET o EE nn H i?y BB bßr?db R r?d ;; A gr?ystone „ • HARDY PURPLE TOP „ FOSTERTONS GREEN TOP „ EARLY SIX WBKKS. (Extract from letter received by TOTHILL. WATSON & Co.) Auckland, New Zealand, 13th April 1893 I baya just returned from a visit to Waikato district, which I visited on purpose to see how Chewings's Fescue is doing there. I saw one paddock. From memory I daresay there weie about 100 acres in it. It had been laid down fiv« years aeo bj Mr F. D. Rich with a .first-class mixture of grasses, including 71b Poverty Bay By, grass, 71b Cocksfoot, some Created Dogstail, Timothy, Clover, etc., aud only 21b Chewings's Fescue. This paddock had been well done to, ploughed t-everal times a crop of taruip* rut m With a liberal dose of manure and fpd off with sheep. Now nearly all the grasses have disappeared except a lit tie cocksfoot, but the Fescue baa spre»d all over the paddock, and is looking very well. I also saw the lawn iv front of the Thauie* Valley Company's house at Lichtteld. Chewiogs's Fescue was sown on it five years ago, together with some Poverty Bay ryegrass freed. The lawn is now a close, thick mat of Fescue, with only a plant of Yorkshire fog showing heie and there. Again, at tho back of Lichfield township I was show.n a 10-acre paddock of very poor land, which was sown quite recently with 151b Chewings's FeEcue alone. It would have been better if sown with some clover as but nevertheless it is fchriv nX wMI and will soon cover the paddock. I also saw the woolshed paddock at Lichfield, where this Fescue is almost the only grass left, and it is evidently thriving. At Woodstock, Mr Rich's own place, 1 went over about H2 acre* recently sown with about 151b CliewiDga's Feßcue 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 SOCOIb ChewiDgn't. Fe3i-ue on » paddock he has piepared for it. Mr Rich imported a large quantity of Festuca Duriuscula some years ago, and sowed it on the 1 names Valley Company's land. It came away very well, but grew a different plant from Chewinga's Fescue, aud nioßOver it died out like the other grasses. Mr Kich has tried every grass he can think of, includiig the hard fescue, and none have stood in the land. Wherever he has sown Chewings's Fescue it has not only held it own, but bas gradually spread over the land when the other grasses died out, of which I bad ocular demonstration in the ca.«e of the paddock sown five years nf?o, with a splendid mixture of grasses, including only 21b Chewings's Fe.cue, and iu -which paddock the Fescue hat now practically full possession. I an) quite satisfied this Fescue is exactly what is wanted for the enormous tracte of poor land in the Waikato, Tau^o, and other districts. J&.€3-^2T& B I?^ FOR SIITTOKT'S