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Specimens of Wheat. 



CONTRIBUTORS. 



Baines, J, F. . 



Daniel 

 Fernie 



Gough, F. 

 Guppy, S. 

 Harris 



Hayivardf W. 

 Kinder^ John . 

 Leidiard . 

 Molesworth, Miss 



Morton, J. 



Norris 



Pusey, Ph. 



Smith, R. 

 Taylor 



Twynam , . . , 

 Whitfield, Ex. Farm 



Anonymous Contri- 

 butors 



SPECIMENS. 



improved Essex red; 2. improved prolific 

 white. 



Mumford's gigantic Richmond white. 



blood-red ; 2. red-straw Lammas ; 3. red 

 cluster j 4. golden drop. 



imperial white. 



Brown's ten-rowed chevallier. 



Burwell wheat. 



farmer's glory ; 2. gigantic. 



white wheat. 



blue cone i 2. Rivett's. 

 An ear, and selected sample of grain of 85 va- 

 rieties; also ears and samples to illustrate ex- 

 periments undertaken by herself. 

 1. Talavera ; 2. eclipse; 3. Hunter's; 4. red- 

 straw white. 



1. Hunter's white ; 2. prolific red ; 3. golden 

 drop ; 4. Whittington's white; 5. Leeds prize; 

 6. Britannia red ; 7. Rivet ; 8. Chedham ; 

 9. Chevallier, or ten-rowed prohfic ; IL Suf- 

 folk eclipse. 



L old red Lammas; 2. golden drop; 3. ten- 

 rowed prolific ; 4. Hunter's ; 5. thick-set 

 Suffolk; 6. Hicklin's prolific ; 1. white Taun- 

 ton ; 8. silver drop; 9. Scotch white; 10. 

 Talavera; 11. a red wheat; 12. Egyptian; 

 13. red straw Lammas; 14. blue cone; 15. 

 red cone. 



1. no name ; 2. no name. 



Ears only. 1. blood-red; 2. small round; 3. 



Dantzic; 4. Downy; 5. Hunter's E. Lothian; 



6. Colisenum ; 7. Talavera; 8. single-eared 



red; 9. Burwell; 10. cornard white. 

 1. Brovm's red Britannia; 2. golden drop; 3. 



Brown's white chevallier. 

 1. Shirreft's white ; 2. short-straw red. 

 1. Chidham ; 2. Oxford prize; 3. giant; 4. 



Taunton Dean ; 5. Finch's white ; 6. cone ; 



1. chevallier prolific ; 8. golden swan ; 9. 



eclipse; 10. silver drop; 11. white Suffolk; 



12. red-straw Lammas. 



