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carried out under the directions of Messrs. Way and Ogston, the following results 

 have boon arrived at : 



The analyses of several varieties gave as the composition of the ashes of the grains 

 of barley : 



In the ' Synopsis of the Vegetable Products of Scotland,' by Peter Lawson and 

 Son, will be found the best description of all the different varieties of barley ; and, 

 since the Lawsonian collection is in the museum of the Royal Botanic Gardens at 

 Kow, the grains can be examined readily by all who take any interest in the subject. 

 A few only of the varieties will be noticed. 



The true six-rowed Barley, known also as Pomeranian and as six-rowed white winter 

 barley. This is a coarse barley, but hardy and prolific. It is occasionally sown in 

 Franco, and also in this country, sometimes as a winter and sometimes as a spring 

 barley, and is found to answer pretty well as either. 



Naked two-rowed. Ear long, containing twenty-eight or thirty very largo grains, 

 which separate from the palese, or chaff, in the manner of wheat. This variety has 

 been introduced to the notice of agriculturalists at various times, and under different 

 names, but its cultivation has never been carried to any great extent. 



Common Here, Bigg, or rough Barley. This variety is chiefly cultivated in the High- 

 lands of Scotland, and in the Lowlands on exposed inferior soils. 



Victoria. A superior variety of the old bigg, compared with which it produces 

 longer straw, and is long-eared, often containing 70 or 100 grains in each. Instances 

 have been known of its yielding 13 quarters per acre, and weighing as much as 96 Ibs. 

 per bushel. 



Beyond those there are the winter black ; the winter white ; old Scottish four-rowed ; 

 naked, golden, or Italian ; Suffolk or Norfolk, and Short-necked; cultivated in various 

 districts, and with varying qualities. See BEEB. 



Total Acreage of Barley grown in Great Britain in each year from 1868 to 1872, 



