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the gift of the goddess Ceres, and so called cereal or 

 corn grasses; the other, not grown for the sake of 

 the grain, but for herbage, and named meadow and 

 pasture grasses. 



Corn grasses, then, belong exclusively to arable 

 cultivation; and, indeed, it maybe concluded that 

 such have been derived from wild species, and that 

 continued culture has brought them about, and still ' 

 maintains them in all their endless varieties, and also 

 gives us a power to add to these to an extraordinary 

 extent. 



It is this facility for improvement, this capability 

 for forming grain on the one hand, and running into 

 varieties on the other, which enables corn to be 

 grown under so wide a range of temperature and in 

 such varied and variable climates ; and it is a know- 

 ledge of the laws affecting these changes, and the 

 modes of action in the growth of corn consequent 

 thereupon, which will constitute " Science and 

 Practice in Corn Cultivation," and should lead to 

 a knowledge of " How to Grow Good Corn." 



In following out this inquiry, we shall, for the 

 most part, confine our observations to the following 

 crops : — 



1. Wheat,] 



2. Oats, I Their Origin, Cultivation, Diseases, 



3. Barley, | Enemies, &c. &c. 



4. %e, J 



