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pointed: by a party of East Lothian — visit and Avena brevis, or te Oat of that country, although Ayrshire. —The Hopetou un, Sandy, and Angus, take 
* kea pri and the United Sta and his |there is a close mblance in the grain, and it is con- | the lead in this reten although the rest of the 12 
wish his | sidered by some ee have been the original cultivated | enumerated varieties wn. In some localities 
ry 
American farmer, Mr. She ri me Fe 
— the country for thousands of miles, for 
im to give an opinion on the — ep 
armers in the 
younger 1 brother having expresse ed a 
ortune 
, are Tapt 
fed on hay, and lamb between 
the “20th ry Anal — ‘the 20th of May. The lambs, 
pared wi ose of England ; the 
are wean — is 12s., and that 
s. 
old 
— ibe, — 2s. per lb. T. W. 
ON THE VARIETIES OF THE O 
ically be called the —.— a 
too poor, 
aoe fair crops © 
tillage — sp raien trend t, 
cious sown the 
ell-k 
earry | The variety called Bla 
ae | teens à 
is my pr 
Fleeces weigh 
pri 
the Barbachlaw (under the 
— Oa 
peri 5 Scotland 
ness. in this county, a 
r the growth of — Oat, the the of — 
— enumera re grown, and, with the In 
. ate Be erlie, Friesland, and Bar bad h- 
nown throughout the whole country. 
ck Murkle, the com 
Oat (Avena fatua), highly im proved, is cultiv: in 
any secondary 7 — Itis ay distinguished 
oured cailtivate d Oats, b 
other kinds. 
tato, fi. Sandy 
however continu 
erlan 
and Dun, 
ue the fa vo 
may he pre more a Barle 
Y,a ese 
into upper and lower districts. 
former we find the Wild Oat, the Black aa late and 
name of the Com hi 
gro 
— extent . in the low — especially on 
improved 
peat so 
Argyle.—The whol of the 12 kinds 8 named 
are cultivated here, b it the Potato to a — pe ng 
hae low 
m — to poor — in . 
han ariety is, 
ts, a corresponding e e of v 
— — by s every distriet 
4 2 n 
mstan 
to consider, — regard . nent fi 
varieties may be profitably hana, or kinds in- 
troduced. I may, in the — that t 
vari of Oats at p — n iui 60. Some 
confusion exists in the identity of many em, from 
the close —— on to ther in external ap- 
e of synonyms. Of this 
num paging i e experience there has been 
them, about one-half ma readily dispensed with in 
this try, being fling importance even as forage 
es 
early to th 
r — for 
the best 
— rye ni 2d. To ediate soils 
situations ; To high alti — — d 
i g expose 
Synoptical Table of the varieties of Oats bed — in Scot- 
according 
to their adaptati 
Ist. To the best meiki aad — a tuations, 
Z —— | Early Angus 
‘Cupar Grange. 
2d. To the aN —— situations 
2. 
Dyock 
Berlie Dun 
Red Mackbiehill ‘Sheriff 
Blainslie Early 
Grey Angus Cleland 
Late Ang Siberian 
Poland eorgian 
Friesland Blue Major 
Lancashire Witches Church's. 
Tam Rtg A 
* — high altitudes and dee, 
in the 
n what may es, and west of a ere it is also 
Black Murkle Oat (Avena fatua, or wild Oat), ä Trish supposed 
and the Black Ta (Avena orientalis), are to be a corruption . 
n, While in upland and most ripe : even calculated to wit 
the common Bristle-poiuted Oat (Avena rou wia wahe but its culture is only 
the Dant i of m advisable in exposed and — a The Bla 
is cultivated, from a conviction that no other Tartarian is profitably grown in of the higher 
will thrive in so a locality, This sort, I | districts The Naked Oat Alte d), 
ideni rg = Ne ae am gl oa ty tivated to a limited extent, appears now to be j 
og Prion) is quite distinct from the | : 
—— ; -pe a Aer series — ex- ta 
nicely y adjusted the the distribution of and ri 
the na 
ese — 2 — 
G 
and varieties under the names of Pola ré | Flemish, 
ace. The Flemish is a har owing 
8 grain fully —— to othe Friesland 
ripens some what earlier. The Pol in grain 
resembles an inferior sample of Potato, pot in other 
pects is 45 no tl 
introduced, but does not 
It serene to the class known under 
markable for its rege ees * 
— fully a fortnight . sooner the 
—— of Siege is 3 46 lbs. — ezh bushel e 
thiek as the Old a proo! 
of. its cin ,in com mparison eer ‘te abot I ma 
m the grain having fallen- 
Ae d dos their goes so olour. 
anf, an on Wild Oat 
was —.— Diaet in in the higher districts of these 
counties ; but the progressive development of the re- 
sources of the soil, and the introduction of improved 
varieties, has l ally to relinquishment, and 
now all the 12 varieties are but the Potato, 
Hopetoun, Sandy, Angus, and Berlie, form the staple. 
In some districts th variety kno th e of 
i e is a favourite; itis an early, long-strawed 
excellent sort for high districts, 
Aberd —— — from its extent, presents a 
of soil an d exposure, 
r vari sequent | en 
diversity of adaptation of 
varieties ; and we find the whole of the kinds originally 
enumerated in very general cultivation, The y 
generally takes the lead, and is known in some localities 
of the county under the name of the Rhynie Oat, un 
having been originally discovered in 1824, on a farm in 
that parish. 
Kincardine and Forfur.— Here we find the Hope- 
* Sandy, and Angus, i in general cultivation, while 
considerable breadth 
is occu ee Wwe the P 
— distriets, an 3 
straw, „ known by the 2 at tie Cosas G Oat, 
en par kep 
istrict eneh d 0 at, is 
. — co 
and Dun are act 
three counties 
Int = 
otato. In 
variety, known under the 1 of the Tam Finlay 
much esteemed by Cultivators. It was gereid 
ees wi as the 2 Polan 
we ek later t 
Se 
i=] 
r 
4 
we 
that 
although tried in other parts of the . in in nilar 
soils, the yield has not equalled that obtained in 
shire. 
Lanark and Renſrew.— All the enumerated 
varieties. 
are grown, but the cg fully to a ats iep i n 
than in the neighbouring co 
prr eber the praa 
H 
l 
dy is extending, to the | eee of sorts 
aa Te was found by e eee not to be. so T: 
ted. erated kin 
tarian, and lac 
distinct variety o sativa, with spreading 
t Lothian an 
panicles ; a 8 vcr early sort, not easily ern 
ly | by wind 
the bosom, and know 
Oat, is also met with. In the in ag ae of Edin- 
burgh, the rem sorts are opetoun, Sandy, 
Kaese 5 ant although the other 
varieties — productive in other r they 
have not son found more igor ble by the farm 
who have gro for Besides 
aan > and when we 
urhood for seed, we h 
for them at the 3 of the ma 
Berwick a 2 The Pota 
toun are in ge 
ate of the anal 
imited extent. An pg, A prolife 
ame of = Red Kent, is grown successfull 
vite d in Lauderdale the Blue 7g a 2 
allied to ee old Georgian, is occasionally met with. 
The C 
existence, ee * Lancashire 
ly, one of the 3 varieties in 
Witches, also an earl 
sort, and superior 2 1 = straw and grain, are culti- 
vated towards the 
Selkirk and Peebles. he San e Aantal now extensively 
grown in these counties t the Hopetoun and Angus 
are also pre ron T hardy, pro variety, 
known pera = name of the Red Macbie Hill oy 
u * ah esteemed, and continues a favourite 
som 
Dumfries eee and ae Figen the 
, the first 
oa tt 
occasionally met with WN “the 
4 
Ar 
unde of Church's, in the Wente 
tions, published in 1816. 7 have now 
the in 
rea ͤ sara, moderately thin 
hin; late in 
Pinili, — Clackmannan, Kinross, ar ife, 
Dumbarton, and 
untry prese 
arieties; an 
—— 12 enumerated kinds gen 
permitted to say, all are anxi 
remy fie of, but which few ‘care about inetitatiog 
selves. 
ous to avail them- 
localities Now in orde 
to withstand | to consider the c 
w 
much care, attention, and 
These qualities may be thus enumerated : 
| eat of grain, qualityand bulk of sira, « early caged d 
er of resistance to wind and water, &c., adaptation 
