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Chapter on Wheats and Wheat Culture. [October, 



wten sown upon a soil of a lighter description. But on all the bet- 

 ter class soils, the white or smooth-chaiFed wheats are preferable, the 

 thinness of the bran rendering them.more valuable. We are now pre- 

 pared to enter upon a course of experiments with this invaluable 

 cereal, testing various kinds of culture, and various and approved 

 kinds of grain. The following is a list of the wheats received from the 

 Patent Ofl&ce and other places which will engage our attention under 

 numerous tests and experiments the coming year. Mostly winter 

 varities, we have also received eleven kinds of turnip seed which are 

 now growing, and some forty-five kinds of grasses — ten kinds of oats, 

 likewise numerous other kinds of seeds. Among the varieties of wheat 

 there are many most beautiful specimens. 

 Wheats — 



White Purkey (of Mr. Christopher Wardel, of Cheviot, Green 



Township, 0.) 

 White Genesee Flint 

 Polish Wheat - - - 

 Swedish Wheat ... 

 Turkish Flint ... ' 



Turkish Flint . . . - ' 

 Triticum Hunter's 



Triticum sativum arbeis prolific ' 



Triticum Album - - " 



Brawick's _ - - - 

 Wooly Eared Wheat - - " 



Chiddam Prince Albert or Windsor " 



A. S. - - 



Sativum - " 



" Spaldings ' 

 " Nuneus " 



A.S. 



Drop - - " 



Sativum Orkeis prolific" 

 " Lamos Red " 



From Poland 



" Sweden 



" Turkey 

 - " Mount Olympus, Asia 



" England 



" England 



Kessingland, 



Triticum 



Triticum 



Triticum 



Hardcastle 



Golden 



Triticum 



Triticum 



Taunton 



Nursery 



Bed Chaffed 



Triticum 



Froment 



Froment 



Wheat 

 Talavera 

 Blanc, 

 Blanc B. M. 



Ireland 

 England 



