. Burpee's farm annual for 1900. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. AUSTRALIAN SALT BUSH A Valuable Forage Plant for Alkali Soils, and for All Regions Subject to Periodic Drought. AUSTRALIAN SALT BUSH has proved a boon to stock raisers on the great sheep and cattle ranches of California. In the semi-desert regions of the South and West many acres of waste lands have been reclaimed and made profitable through the agency of this plant. It grows on lands that will produce no other vegetation, providing from
. Burpee's farm annual for 1900. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. AUSTRALIAN SALT BUSH A Valuable Forage Plant for Alkali Soils, and for All Regions Subject to Periodic Drought. AUSTRALIAN SALT BUSH has proved a boon to stock raisers on the great sheep and cattle ranches of California. In the semi-desert regions of the South and West many acres of waste lands have been reclaimed and made profitable through the agency of this plant. It grows on lands that will produce no other vegetation, providing from twenty to thirty tons of green, nutritious food per acre. Specially adapted to the unirrigated lands of the arid and semi-arid regions of the West and to all regions where there is a" deficiency of rainfall. AUSTRALIAN SALT BUSH has been for many years the mainstay of herdsmen on the great interior sheep and cattle ranges of Australia. In the semi-desert of Australia, South Africa, and on the alkali lauds of Western America, where irrigation is impracticable, it thrives and produces large crops. It flourishes where grasses and other forage plants will not grow, furnishing enormous quantities of nutritive food for stock. It may be sown among our native grasses, and when so used increases the appetite and improves the condition of grazing animals. Mr. Charles H. Shinn, U. S Government Inspector of California Experiment Stations, wrote us on September 5, 1898, kindly inclosing copy of reply he had made to the agents of President Roca, who afterward purchased from us several large lots for distribution in the Argentine Republic. As this letter brings out points as to the great value of the true variety (Atriplex semibaccatum), we reprint the following extract from last year's catalogue : This extremely valuable plant has so far more than fulfilled our highest expectations. It has grown well upon strong alkali soils—soils impregnated with Epsom salts, Glauber salts, potash-
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