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cent changes in the feveral Diftridb. The 

 only inftance in which I have had an oppor- 

 tunity of tracing the variety down to the 

 $a>cnt individual, has occurred to me in this 



A man whofe obfervation is ever on the 

 wing in the field of hufbandry, having per- 

 ceived in a piece of wheat a plant of uncom- 

 mon ftrength and luxuriance, diffufing its 

 branches on every fide, and fetting its clofely 

 furrounding neighbours at defiance j marked 

 it, and at harveft removed it feparately. 



The produce was fifteen ears, yielding fix 

 hundred and four grains of a itrong-bodicd 

 liver-coloured wheat, different in general 

 appearance from every other variety I have 

 feen. The chaff finooth, awnlefs, and the 

 colour of the grain. The ftraw flout and 

 reedy. 



Thefe fix hundred grains were planted 

 fingly nine inches afunder, filling about forty 

 fquare yards of ground ; not in a garden, or 

 in a feparate piece of ground, but upon a 

 clover ftubble ; the remainder of which was 

 at the fame time (own with other wheat 

 in the common way : by which means extra- 



ordinary 



