90 THE WHEAT CULTURIST. 



OF VARIETIES. 



I purposed, when I commenced waiting this book, to 

 record the name of every variety of wheat that I could 

 hear of. But, when I met with the long list of names 

 in the Keport of the Superintendent of the Experimental 

 Farm, Washington, in the Department of Agriculture, 

 for 1865, I felt so thoroughly disgusted with names, that 

 I at once abandoned the idea of presenting the reader 

 with a list of the numerous varieties of wheat. I will 

 give a few, simply t o show what intolerable jaw-breakers 

 some men will employ, when a monosyllable, that any 

 body could remember without difficulty, and which a 

 child could speak, would be ten thousand times better 

 in every respect. Here they are : Frumento Andriolo 

 Esastico Kosso ; Tauntondean ; Flickling s Hallet s 

 Genealogical; Schonermark s ; Canadischer and Wiez- 

 acker ! 



There is another consideration touching the names of 

 the different varieties of wheat which has induced me 

 to omit names, which is this : Wheat bearing the same 

 name, which has been produced on different kinds of 

 soil, will frequently be as unlike as two distinct varie 

 ties, even when both samples grew in one field, only two 

 or three years previous. The introduction, therefore, 

 of a long list of names of wheat, which has never been 

 tested, and which will never succeed, even if properly 

 cultivated, would seem to be adding confusion and be 

 wilderment, where the subject might otherwise be 

 moderately clear and intelligible for all practical purpose. 



The name of every variety of wheat should be signi 

 ficant of something, if possible ; and always short, so 

 that it may be remembered without difficulty. 



