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On the Hill Wheat of India. 



I sowed in a garden, the remainder he sowed.; our crops very 

 unexpectedly proved to be Wheat of the spring kind, and the 

 usual size, the grains of which were nearly, if not quite, as 

 large as those of the ordinary spring Wheat. 



On this, Mr. Lambert applied to Mrs. Barri^gton, 

 from whom he had received the seeds, for information of the 

 country from whence they came; but she had, among the 

 multiplicity of seeds received by her about the same time, 

 forgot the exact history of them ; all she knew was, that they 

 came from India, but from what part of India, she did not 

 recollect. 



From the writing on the paper, "Hill Wheat,'* it is probable 

 they came either from the Peninsula, or from the hilly coun- 

 try, far within land from Bengal, as the province of Bengal 

 itself is a flat alluvial soil, entirely level. 



This Hill Wheat, however, is no doubt known by some per- 

 sons, who either are now in India, or have returned from 

 thence into this country ; and it is certainly a matter of some 

 importance to know what they can inform us on the subject 

 of it ; especially whether this Wheat is a cultivated, or a wild 

 plant ; as we shall, if the latter is the case, ascertain two of the 

 greatest desiderata of cultivators; the country where Wheat 

 grows spontaneously ; and the nature of the grain in its 

 original state, when unassisted by the fostering hand of man. 



