NEW GRASS
DISCOVERY IN AFRICA A new grass has been discovered in Africa that is expected to be of great help in solving the soil erosion problem. It spreads with great rapidity!, quickly covering large areas with a lush growth in sections of limited rainfall. Eight men were required to lift a single runner with all its secondary growths. This runner extended itself a distance of 48.5 feet in five and a half months. A single plant appeared spontaneously in the experimental station of the Department of Agriculture for For. estry at Pretoria. A search was made for the wild plant, and it was found growing in the nearby Rift Valley reports I. B. Pole Evans, i n «& com-! munication to "Nature."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 57, 1 September 1939, Page 2
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