THE 
APRIL 2, 1864} 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 323 
nce so 
f Wheat | 
was about 17 bushels per acre; of | 
ach bushels. ‘The 
,4 qe of | 
“Nothing 
as baving rael records | of its produce si 
ck as 1 
e p is ‘about 680 acres "in ag 400 acres 
a the 
» b 
to the yearly system of plant improving. If it is true 
| (a bull by Captain Gunter UKE OF OXFORD), 
without exceptions—and none have been menti oned— 
out ofa mg oe Lori Ducie' 8 Flourish, 
The above acc of eir breeding i is enough to 
guide a one li et 
The P arm is, however, interesting, not only for the 
hich has been by Mr. Rich's enterprise 
P: Shessotenietice of their ‘respective crede itd is 
difficult to see how any change whatever can take 
place. Tas cei E e words 
more or less" m i 
escape án error i a 
E tected. The 
best grain, 1 
va, 
ave 
anythin ind s 
expressions best pla nt, “best ear, and 
Now 
1 manogement, and for the records of its produee, ment 
through many years, which eee the gradual a 
if largeness of asingle grain 
arable, and 280 a we poe The labour 
farm inc clu ides 23 m a and 10 d 
n facon a 5 ue some- | 
ing» de ‘on corn harvest, and 
The cropping include es me 
times em mployed, as Ene 
at rapta time. 
AGRICULTURAL PLANT IMPROVEMENT. 
evana treating of the rival principles of cultivation 
on, in your Leading Article of the 5th March 
grains the succeeding generation, But a 
in co 
Sti nd abo ut i 60 acres in Turn The r 
the f. : 
Sainfoin is gr te y up for en crop of some 
kin The practice of stifle burning, by which a 
il i 
n | you pne neither correctly defined 
of 
exe plon may perhaps be claimed for such ‘ante, 
wile ough may be gleaned to c con ndem ate. 
" cae 4 diae noticed, i 
isis one ear there were five D) out of 13 unlike 
the parent, ear, whi ch was .discovered in my "m 
irsery 
nor defended my 
views on seriou m bm T ter acu i Ce ges 
ask space for avation in your valuable p: 
Of the three k sige facts, on none of: which y you think | 
M 
T [m 
was 
ar the perent plant 
a Commenting with t TI st pos mt ate, namely, 
the grains of cereals differ in their apa a of produc- 
| tiv veness. in d» cussing | this subject you seem in 
the character ristics 
Put I koe ge another persicas 
origin of sports. I fecundated 
p es 2 ne A | 
jed 
| 
ee 
E. is, Kiowe. the herd of pure bred Short- CH 
|a floret of Bhirreffa Bearded White, with pollon from 
poe er flore e same ear, an 
gor tao operation is repeated on 
sultan 
varieties or of a single ear, and you “sometimes ado te 
bs he one view and pde dium the ot ther. It is, how 
ver, evident that the grains of a single ear is Mio, 
as the system he advocates is base upon it, and w hich 
hi sa m as footie à the best ear for pti 
this s pecie a plant with bearded white chaff, 
I enerally woli: cultivated, The farm ^ | gene 8 of a fixed am ty of Wheat, and |a second plant had bald white chaff, and a third had 
always | been. to” some ex xtent a ry farm, the Lon Tdi especially large deat seeds are often gs nd | chaff white, bald, d semi woolly (absteens), Tal 
uality, and sometimes also in | ponent a the nm pollen from 
g the | | colour, but all the ‘descendant planita. E euis pro- | Talavera, a the dein diat er 
by gradual as abw wh aa sales dur 
20 years, an and by de ago of first “class | du 
a herd including members of some of the most | 
akionablo straing of pure Short-horn blood has been | 
cted, 
of Mr. Glass, of Worton, near $ 
oe were | 
m the | 
dmarton her: goo na 
Ducie’s, “ Ursula,” by ure was o tined 
O tc 
Ru 
ductive when g under a parity of circumstances. | grain. bell. ape, and nearly as high: 66 
It is space, et rinm soll, mate, &c, whic eat. None of these Wheats proved fixed on repro- 
gp clim 
causes inequality in ina productiveness of Wheat | | duction in the second year, and diversity of charac- 
| of the seeds, The “ai ive uni of seeds and 4 But by far the ag damaging part of the leading 
in type of plants proceeding from TU ¡article i in ques — paragraph treating of px ity of 
every observant a enm S Punti rs 
inequality i in the size of Tur: y cA ? aoe grown in | Haller 
the and nouri ishment s 
Xie 
erm and she has eleve: iiri 
nother “ Grate! ” cow (* Flourish’ ) 
t at the Tortworth sale, and she has eight 
ants. Old “Splendour,” a bred by e 
. Dickenson's sale 
wW 
C. | common be eyon 
id tue “that the descendant 
undness of histheory." This extra 
ystem of 
ome 
anom malie 8 with Whe eat. From seeds | is a full and cle: des z admission mae Hallett's s 
O: 
oi varieties with fixity 
n character, and unles: ethic] is the case the term Moris la 
is perhaps ^ oléspylted, but pe seeds have nothin "e 
nd TR germs giving li fe to new planta. | oily failed, to — ove, but has produced great deterio- 
known as sports | rat ion. have long been anxious to break down this 
"bro has 
ad, re 
ssive coarseness ; not 
Harvey , has fo 
and there are vió heifers feti 
directly descended from oe 
59 th 
| 
»| fixed iei differin 
pose 
from the parent plant. sistem. Morel bd misleading agriculturists in i sr 
e diee of one flore t| im ving, and I rejoice at the Hom effective aid lately 
comi ji in conta: h the style of another, and are, received through the columns the Agricultural 
sometimes Air igi which ‘fe, b aa aot always, | G'aze 
roduc An ear Bofors concluding allow 
la * which E e into | from 
A ering amer 
e purchaser at the | fi 
— of the hg 
own | 
oubt add norii | 
ulls em loyed on this herd have i di 
= Old 
80 long 
: end T 
1852; « 
fas ith Duley of. i" 
HP ord Ducie, calved i in | 
ss Qa To, ob from s oil 
“Ko h-i- 
din 1853; a 
6, by ‘eth 
x "Dacingon eth? ” the cana 
Wheat and there are saved of them from different 
| origins, I have not MÀ AA ine emus to 
| fix any type, but pers may effect this object. 
I uu not without "ope. that: iy sportin " Vheats may 
give rise to new and valuable varieties ; but whether 
the POE. ted kids are to be fixed by repeated selec- 
s, or to arise fixed by nature, can only be deter- 
Sed by experience. 
= Oh the fixity of wee Mr. Hallett’s senti- 
ents differ widely fro He believes them 
“auntragable, and capable 2 ‘eis fixed by yaly 
selection, while I consider them 4 A ther origin, 
and unalterable by cultivation. But while con ntending 
for fixity by nature, sports aud sori are exem pted. 
We are ,ifn 
| the only, way of improvement, while we pursue 
€ an: > variety.” 
,; has been adroitly used 
y WE Hallett, fa E E himself and all the “ Aveo 
fal i Ps ET onfess their errors, their system 
of pla wil enceforth be 
Patrick ‘Sinope “Haddington, March 19, 1864. 
THE Masonite etes 
a great similar he com eae of 
and 2. of etal Tauto directly or 
vegetables.* Th 
THE 
reget, 
e most minute, M 
posed and Tanais parts “of a tad plant, while 
| my, foundation a living obj ect, with all its charac- | 
u 
ee mo potash, &c., and s t is also 
strikin pj! ks NE noticed that. the, same species or E: ea in different 
TUE : in the amount of each ingredier 
B 
The bearded eiu iru m 
their ag character 
$7 
hn od yield riu 
best suited for the dusting purpose of the bakehouse. 
ptit: notice a great di 
_ The e i eged “ facts” „Which have been enun- » 
plants ts of one o oreven n species, ccording as the soil 
calves by him now f 
ORK, a 
Toan, calved — t Ootaber bred Med Bohr a daughter of 
RAD, & } and white 
Hage mouth months old, got by 3p E = Laces 
So out of a daughter of rry. PRINCE 
3x4 12 months old, e DEN OF CLARENCE 
Pa e granddaughter o of Captain Gunter’s | 
RAM apis Mii adis eee A P e 
» roan, 
6 months old, got by zm |a 
. | quartern 
of the "Harieutival Gazette, have so dam 
sum of Wheat DE AG by, 2 d Malection 
ears and grains, that w be success 
Nonae ait eu the 
ed the| 
ly notice rnm dat ie uA 
of | have been much different ‘front de presen at, 
observe that the difference i E nearly in the ratio of the 
recession backwards, and a 
comprehensive view of all, in both kingdoms, from 
im. LIE ae hod v indices pr 
eda 
eut 
the 
ua n REAL od to explain how it was cud to alter 
ear to year, and how the ears and grains cha T 
while 5j othar pa of the plant remain fixed. The 
also ought 2 rm Vile 
length of time requisite 
mam- 
* In Er life, and especially in sea animalcule life, 
where venen eripe Mig seem to unite, some varieties of 
Ee < appear to subsist like vegetables upon the elements 
from 
a gerig of Kathleen 
And Fnaxk FARLEG by Eart Hows 
avimals 
' alone. 
fact” 
