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terms, entitled Europceish Cerealian, or European Cereals, wliich 

 for plan and execution, appears to us to be the most useful and 

 the most eminently classic of all essays on the subject. So many 

 ■n^orks undertaken on this subject, proves the deep interest of the 

 matter. The Maison Kustique illustrates the varieties by faithful 

 drawings. The ordinary wheat, triticum sativum, is bald, ear long 

 a little pyramidical, it is the most general in France and in Eu- 

 rope, is most esteemed as grain. The straw holds the first rank 

 for cattle ; more or less humidity occasions a difference of eight 

 or ten days in the harvest. This wheat is commonly tender; but 

 that grown in tii*^ southern par's is often twice as hard as the other. 

 A variety of this wheat is bald march wheat, a spring wheat. 



The white flanders wheat, or blanc, or the ble blaze de lille, or 

 white tea, or lillie burnt corn, has a larger ear, awhitergrain than 

 the others, grain oblong. 



Talavera wheat ; much like the latter, not so large an ear, has 

 been carried from Spain to England for cultivation, and is ex'en- 

 sively grown. First cultivated in England, about (now 1852) 

 twenty eight years ago. It was formerly more strongly marked 

 than it is now. 



White wheat of Hungary ; ear white, almost square, the grain 

 white and round, was introduced into England at the same time 

 with the talavera, and is now much and successfully cultivated 

 in Blois, France, under the name of Englisli corn. 



Fellcmberg Wheat. — A March wheat. Straw and ear almost 

 as long as the tall wheat, but small grain, polished and white. 

 Stands well on foot ; a vigorous straw. 



Piotet Wheat. — A March wheat. Long grain, tender. One of 

 the best spring wheats. 



White Touzelle. — Very white ear, long grain, yellowish coler, 

 extremely brittle straw. 



Naples White Richelle. — Renowned at the south for its high 

 ^•uality. Ear white ; grain oblong, yellowish white. 



Beardhss Odessa Wheat, — Among the various kinds tried in 



