s ME Duthie gave the following additional information in his report 
for the year ending March 31, 1885 :— 
.. *'The chocolate-coloured b aie produced 15 maunds grain and 12} 
maunds straw per acre. The yield of grain was thus heavier than tho 
vent eve g grown 
curiosity ; we possess a white-grained variety of. huskless baie: and a 
good large sample of this has lately been sent to Kew for special report. 
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sample was duly Te vod. se as submitted t 
1 price. With FEE to to the origin of these curious cereals, a 
communication was read from Captain Pogson at the s of the A 
cultaral and Horticultural Society of India on January 29, 1886, in whieh 
was stated that Indian wheat-barley, as he termed it, was introduced 
Seca the: Punjab and North-western Provinces during 1881, when consider- 
able success was secured in the Punjab. He further stated that the 
seed was obtained from P 1 Thi Three var 
barley art cz vated in Thibet, tdem the white, the dull ¢ green, — 
and the dark brown (chceolate-colou 
"There is wodbiog rlar tà. Si youd em this huskless barley till the 
present year, when = specimens in the Kew Museum 
attention of Mr. : e T. Brown, of Burton-on-Trent, who has com- 
municated is be pi ia interesting —Á which he has — 
Mr z Horace | T. Mies to Rota GARDENS, Kew. 
E ee Street ten DNE June 22, 1888, z 
Shan" barley wbich yon RM CHINO 
Imost wi he jw aie 
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