54: THE WHEAT CULTUKIST. 



The tillers always spring from the joint, knot, or bulb, 

 just below the surface of the ground, when the seed is 

 planted more than one inch deep. When the kernels 

 are planted very shallow, it seems difficult to determine 

 whether the new stems or tillers start from the grain, 

 from the seminal, or primary roots, or from the coronal, 

 or secondary roots. This a matter of little consequence. 

 Yet the fact that the young wheat plant does tiller is a 

 valuable one ; and practical wheat-growers may take 

 profitable advantage of it. 



I have seen stools of wheat having forty-eight stems ; 

 and have had reliable accounts of stools of over seventy 



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FIG. 11. Stool of stubble. 



stems with perfect heads. C. Miller planted a few ker 

 nels of wheat on the 2d day of June ; and in August, 

 one of the plants had tillered so much that he was en 

 abled to divide it into eighteen distinct plants, all of 

 which were transplanted. After a few weeks, these had 



