528 Agricultural Journal of Victoria. 



success in Britain is no guarantee tliat it will do equally well under 

 our conditions. 



Pedigree. — 



Talavera Triticum Spelta Bariweizen Fultz 



(English) (Species — Southern Asia) (Hungarian) (American) 



NEW ERA 



Denervation. — "Early : grain medium large ; color amber 

 translucent ; straw long, strong and of tine texture ; ear very long, 

 compact, and bearded. 



The introduction of this new breed of wheat is a forerunner to a 

 remarkably distinct series of other new breeds to be introduced at a 

 later period, and marks the turning point when the British farmer 

 will be able to produce a wheat superior in quality to the majority of 

 foreign wheats now so largely used by our millers. The quantity 

 and quality of gluten, produced by the New Era when grown in 

 suitable wlieat growing soils, is remarkable, and is quite equal to 

 that of the best imported varieties. As a miller's wheat it has no 

 equal, and will realise shillings per quarter more than any other 

 wheat." 



Abundance Oats- 



Among the oats Abundance, a new breed of white oat, possesses 

 the advantage of earliness, combined with good yielding qualities. 

 It was introduced by the Gartons in 1802, and its pedigree is 



White August White Swedish 



ABUNDANCE. 



The regenerated, not the original stock, was used, and the 

 advantage to be gained from this is accounted for by the Messrs. 

 Garton in the following remarks : — " When new breeds of plants are 

 raised from cross fertilized seed the tendency is, after the lapse of a 

 few years to deteriorate, as strikingly shown in the different varieties 

 of potatoes which succeed for a few years, then fall out of cultivation 

 to give place to others of more recent origin. This is exactly what 

 occurs in all other new breeds of farm plants which are produced by 

 means of artificial fertilization. In the case of new breeds of grain 

 this deterioration is caused by nature's system of continual in and in 

 breeding. To arrest this deterioration and bring these new breeds 

 back to their original productiveness, our system of plant improve- 

 ment is each year applied to a number of individual florets, and from 

 the grains thus produced a stock is raised which we term regenerated 

 stock. Our regenerated stock of Abundance being practically eleven 

 years younger than the original stock now generally grown, is 

 consequently more vigorous and productive, as may be seen from 

 tests made between the regenerated stock and the original stock by 

 the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland." 



