i. YORKSHIRE. $ 



1. " Zealand Wheat :" chaff white, with- 

 but awns * ; ears fomewhat large ; grain white 

 and full-bodied ; ftraw long and reedy. This 

 fort is well adapted to weak and to middling 

 foiled land. In a rich foil, efpecially in a 

 moid feafon, it runs too much to draw. 



2. " Downy Kent :" chaff white, downy, 

 and awnlefs ; ears middle- fized ; grain white 

 and fmall ; ftraw ihort. This kind is beft 

 adapted to good land ; in which it generally 

 yields well, notwithftanding the fmallnefs of 

 the grains. 



3. Common White Wheat. The two pre- 

 ceding forts feem to have almoft banifhed 

 the " old white wheat" of the Diftrid the 

 white Lammas of other diftri&s. 



4. Hertford/litre Brown. Chaff white y 

 grain red, ftraw of a middle growth : re- 

 fembling the Kentifh white Co/h of Norfolk. 



5. " Yellow Kent.'' Chaff fomewhat red; 

 grain white ! ears large ; ftraw flout. 



6. Common Red Wheat. This, like the o?d 

 white, appears to be now nearly extincl. 



B 2 2. TRITICUM 



All the -varieties of Triticum Hylemum which I 

 h^vc yet obfcrved have afewjhort awm towards the top 

 of the ear. 



