14 WHEAT. j; 



wheat and rye, formerly a very common 

 crop in this neighbourhood, and ftill remains 

 to be fo in the Morelands) is never affected 

 by the blight or mildew,- provincially and 

 properly, " meldew :"and that the nature 

 of rye is fuch, that a very fmall quantity of 

 it fown among wktat prevents this frequently 

 definitive effect. 



This, if well founded, is a moft interefting 

 fact ; not only in HUSBANDRY, but in the 

 VEGETABLE ECONOMY. 



RYE. 



THE ONLY SPECIES of rye culti- 

 vated in thefe kingdoms is the SECALE cereak 

 of Linneus ; of which two varieties are cul- 

 tivated in this Diflrict. 



1. BLACK RYE ; formerly the only fort. 



2. WHITE RYE, or DANTZICK RYE; in- 

 troduced into this country about half a cen- 

 tury 



