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in regard to the improvement of existing, or the introduction of exotic, grasses unless by cultivating and fertilizing the land, which steep declivities would hardly pay for the labour, except perhaps at the toes of hills in the most favourable and accessible places. It is questionable whether the cultivation of fodder granes (which could not be grown on the hills

such as Teosinte – buchlaena luxuri

ans - in cultivated land would pay better than sice or sugar, but experi-

ments could be made. Pine tree.

eon-

lands will be noticed under the subject of Forestry, but at the first of the site of the Economic Garden is suitably chosen its staff could be partly ployed, in connection with their other duties, in rearing and looking after trees in their experimental stages in the garden and on adjacent forest

hill land.