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Volume 3, 1870
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Schedule of Queries Referred to Above.
1.

In what locality found.

2.

Probable altitude.

3.

Soil and subsoil in which found.

4.

Season of flowering and seeding.

5.

Is it a useful spring, summer, autumn, or winter grass?

6.

Are there any special circumstances which appear to affect its growth? How does it resist drought?

7.

What appears to be the comparative value of this grass as food for stock? Is it much relished by stock?

8.

How does it resist frost?

9.

Does it appear to be increasing or diminishing? In either case, to what do you attribute this result?