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White Smooth Pollard, or White Shoulder of the Gatinais. — 

 Ear shining. This again is identloal with wliat was called, a few 

 years ago, Com of laganrock. 



Garagnon Corn of the Lozere.— This wheat is used in place of 

 ' rice, for pottages. White, smooth. Beard sometimes white and 

 ' sometimes black ; grain of a fine quality, of a middling size- 

 Eastern White Petanielle— Is much like the preceding. 



White Yelvety Pollard. — Ear square, very regular, very val- 

 \ vety. 



I Red Velvet Pollard, or Big Red Corn, or Red Petanielle, or 

 i Grossaille, or Grossagne. — Ear very velvety, grain longer and 

 t larger than the smooth red Pollard. 



! Tnrquet Big Corn. — A sut-variety of the preceding, has a thick 

 ' ear, elongated a little, regular square, of an ashy red color, grain 

 I very large. The most vigorous and productive of the velvety sorts. 



j Saint Helena CJorn.— Galled the giant corn of Saint Helena, is 



a sub-variety of the re& Petanielle. We have received samples 



rom many collections of wheats, under the name of Dantzic Com 



. which is identically the St. Helena wheat. No doubt it was 



i taken from Furope, originally, to that Island, and now comes 



j back to us. 



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j^Mizacle Corn, or Smyrna Corn. — Linnaeus made a speci&s ot 



this remarkable wheat, but it is only a variety of the Turgidum. 



_ The extraordinary appearance of the car, broad and thick, seem- 

 ing a mass of ears grafted upon one another, has always made it 

 interesting to cultivators, many of whom have tried it, and al- 



■' most every one had to give it up, after some years' trial, on ac- 

 count ot the delicacy of its growth and its dislike of winter. 

 The grain, altliough rounder, more yellow and more beautiful 



, than the other Pollards, does not seem to be of a better quality. 



i It degenerates quickly to the simple ear. 



Blue Pollard, or Comical Blue Com — Is cultivated in England 

 and some parts of Franco, esteemed for productiveness and hard- 

 , iness, differs from the other variety Pollai'ds by the bluish color 

 ! of the ears. 



