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chaff- scales. Of these M. Vilmorin enumerates eleven 

 distinct varieties, ten having simple ears and one having 

 a compound ear. 



No. 3, T. durum, has three varieties. 



No. 4, T. polonicum, only one. 



No. 5, T. Qfmyleuwi, only one. 



No. 6, T. monococcum, only one. 



No. 7, T. spelta, is divided into two the bearded and 

 beardless varieties. 



Of these seven species only the two first are cultivated 

 in this country, the others being merely grown for experi- 

 mental or illustrative purposes. 



The T. sativum comprises all the varieties of winter 

 and spring wheat under ordinary cultivation ; the T. tur- 

 gidum being limited to certain districts where the soils 

 are cold and strong, and where a large yield of a coarse 

 quality is desired. 



It would not be within the limits of this short treatise 

 to attempt to give a description of each, or of half the 

 various wheats cultivated in different parts of the king- 

 dom ; it must therefore be confined to those most gene- 

 rally esteemed varieties met with in our best cultivated 

 districts, their characteristics being given in the briefest 

 possible manner. 1 The simplest division between them 

 for our purpose is that of colour, white or red, the yellow 

 varieties being classified either with the one or the other 

 according to the darkness of their tint. Amongst the 

 most esteemed of the white varieties, we meet with 



Brodie's Wheat. Fine sample, superior to Hunter's; 

 straw longer, about a week or ten days earlier at harvest, 

 and more productive ; suited for spring sowing, cultivation 

 increasing in good districts Lothians, Berwickshire, &c. 



1 Those who wish for more detailed particulars, should consult the Essai 

 (Tun Catalogue Methodique et Synonomique des Froments, par L. Vilmorin ; 

 the Synopsis of the Vegetable Products of Scotland, P. Lawson & Son; and the 

 articles " Triticum" and " Wheat" in the Cyclopedia of Agriculture. 



