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A photograph of 3-4 feet tall high grass with trees in the background.

A photograph of strychnos pungens, the Kaffir orange, which is a sweet fruit.

A photograph of a new farm house for the gardener with Mr. H. L. Hall is standing on the porch of the house. There is grass thatch shown in the foreground as well as partly applied to the roof.

A photograph of the tennis gallery with several people sitting on chairs.

A photograph that shows the upper edge of the escarpment.

A photograph that shows the escarpment as viewed from below with waterfalls in the background. There are also aloes, proteas and bush veld in the area.

A photograph of pure grassland taken just above the breaks.

A photograph of rolling hilly country and grassland.

A photograph of rolling hilly country and grassland.

A photograph of a dipping tank thatched with cymbopogon marginatus.

A photograph of cynodon dactylon and eragrostis plana. There is themeda on the hills in the background.

A photograph of a grass fire on the high veld, chiefly eragrostis plana.

A photograph of Burtt-Davy standing and pointing at the soil of the high veld.

A photograph of the soil of the high veld.

A photograph of the soil of the high veld. The surface is thrown up abut 8 inches above the actual soil surface. The surface foot is chocolate colored, then at the second foot it becomes more reddish. This red character of the soil increases and it…

A photograph of closely-grazed themeda forskalii as well as eragrostis curvula, which constitues the lighter patches. There is also an occasional cymbopogon.

A photograph of themeda forskalii, cymbopogon marginatus, acalypha peduncularis, and vernonia crassiana.

A photograph of a succession due to an old hay stack and the trampling done by cattle about the stack. There is cynodon incompletus on the trampled area, themeda triandra at the right and in the background, and eragrostis curvula is more abundant on…

A photograph of Burtt-Davy's ranch house with themeda and cymbopogon in the foreground as well as pinus insignus in background.

A photograph of making reins. It is raw strips of oxhide that are wet with hot lard or tallow and twisted up. When thoroughly twisted they are allowed to unwind and twist in the opposite direction. After five days of twisting they are dried and used…