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VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. 



horses. It is said that spelt wheat is better adapted 

 than any of the more delicate kinds for culture in 

 Australia, and probably it would be found the pre- 

 ferable sort in all the more southern wheat-growing 

 countries. 



Ear and Plant of Spelt Wheat. m 



There are two distinct varieties of spelt, distin- 

 guished as the awned and the awnless ; the latter 

 is perhaps the most naked of all the cerealia. The 

 grains of this are large, but the ear contains only a 

 small number of them, as a portion of the flowers 

 prove barren. It is generally, if not always, a spring- 

 sown crop ; grows strongly, and its stalks are nearly 

 solid. Bread made of its flour is said to be of a dry 

 quality. 



