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These results, I am aware, can lead to no useful comparison, 

 the plants of the wheats being more or less affected bj the 

 weather ; but, from a continued observation, I consider them 

 both excellent sorts of wheat. Of the white wheats, the Talavera 

 I have grown several times, with various success ; but it is de- 

 cidedly a spring wheat, and there must be considerable risk in 

 sowing it in our climate in the autumn. Of the Chiclham, as a 

 wheat for autumnal sowing, its value is well known and appre- 

 ciated in this district of country. The Chidham sown for trial 

 was so mixed by the plant being filled up in the spring with 

 Talavera wheat, that any account of it I consider would be use- 

 less ; but a piece sown adjoining was supposed to contain per 

 acre full 5 qrs., and upwards of 3 loads of straw ; the Silver-drop 

 also, on a still lighter part of the fields was considered quite equal 

 to the Chidham, as was also some Suffolk wheat, a valuable 

 variety, in a field very near. It will, of course, be left to the 

 Council generally to decide from the various reports as to whether 

 the wheats selected at Liverpool, for trial for the prizes, are so 

 superior to the sorts in general use as to deserve the approbation 

 and premium that the Society would in that case confer ; yet I 

 feel it my duty at once to state, that, though I think the Chidham 

 wheat, as a white wheats and the Burwell and Champion red 

 wheats, sorts that may be safely recommended to public notice, 

 yet that I do not believe them to be in any way superior to the 

 sorts of wheat now in general use. Of the red wheats I think 

 the Champion would bear the heaviest crops, if any difference. 

 Of the Talavera, being a spring wheat, and properly belonging 

 to that class for trial, I consider the autumn-sowing (though it 

 might not have failed) to be an experiment on which we could 

 not safely rely for a crop, or recommend for general practice. 



Geo. Kimberley. 



Trotsworth, Egham, October 10, 1842. 



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In furnishing the result of my trial of the Liverpool prize-wheats, 

 I m.ust observe that the season so completely destroyed all chance 

 of doing justice to the experiment^ that it will be utterly value- 

 less. 



Not having received the wheat until the wet weather of last 

 autumn had set in, I waited in vain for a favourable change, and 



small patches where there was a plant no difference in the appearance of 

 the wheat could be observed. 



