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sown  after  clover  with  this  wheat,  and  the  remainder  of  the  field 
was  sown  with  Browick  red.  The  white  wheat  was  very  much 
mildewed,  while  the  red  was  not  much  injured.  On  my  re- 
marking that  this  was  the  case,  an  experienced  farmer  said  to 
me,  “ It  serves  you  right,  you  ought  to  have  known  better  than 
to  sow  that  sort  of  wheat  after  clover.”  He  himself  was  a large 
grower  of  this  wheat,  but  he  never  sowed  it  after  clover,  and  I 
never  did  again.  The  following  notes  from  my  replies  will 
give  the  opinions  which  were  expressed  : — 
Descriptions  of  Wheat  attacked  by  Mildew  or 
Descriptions  of  'Wheat  reported  as  least 
reported  as  most  susceptible. 
liable  to  Mildew. 
See  Nos. 
See  Nos. 
Scholey’s  Square  Head 
/10,  20,  21,49, 
\ 60,  66,  82. 
Golden  Drop 
Nursery 
The  finer  sorts 
41,  49. 
11,  73. 
Rivett’s 
21. 
8. 
Lenny’s  White 
38. 
White* 
White  (excepting  Stand- 1 
20,  31. 
up  and  Red  Chaff/ 
White) ) 
60. 
Browick 
43. 
Stand-up  White  . . 
Talavera  
17. 
5. 
Stand-up 
60. 
Rough  Chaff,  Essex  ] 
Red  Chaff  White  .. 
60. 
Rough  Chaff,  Hoary  > 
White,  or  Velvet  ear . . ] 
41,  49,  54,  5S. 
Fenton’s  White 
39. 
Essex  White 
71,  72. 
From  these  replies  it  would  seem  that  Scholey’s  Square-head, 
a rather  favourite  wheat  on  rich  loams,  has  an  unenviable  repu- 
tation ; with  me,  however,  it  has  certainly  suffered  less  than 
white  wheats. 
Referring  to  A.  Young’s  collection  of  opinions,  it  will  be 
seen  that  it  was  believed  very  generally  that  white  wheat 
suffered  more  than  red,  and  that  bearded  wheat  and  Rivett’s 
escaped  the  best.  Does  it  not  seem  probable  that  the  constitu- 
tion of  some  sorts  may  be  more  vigorous  and  the  power  of 
resisting  disease  greater  than  in  other  sorts  ? 
Time  of  Solving  and  date  of  Harvest. — There  is  much  evidence 
in  favour  of  early-sown  and  early-matured  crops.  Over  and 
over  again  one  reads  the  same  words,  “ late  crops  are  most 
liable ; ” and  one  correspondent  reports  of  a farm,f  that  it 
had  the  reputation  of  growing  mildewed  corn,  and  nothing  else, 
but  the  present  occupier  having  adopted  early  sowing  has  suf- 
* I don’t  know  whether  Shakespeare  will  be  admitted  as  a credible  witness  to 
the  peculiar  liability  of  white  wheat  to  mildew  ; but  he  certainly  makes  one  of 
his  characters  assert  that  “the  foul  fiend  ‘Flibbertigibbet’  mildows  the  white 
wheat.” — King  Lear,  iv.  3.  t See  No.  57,  p.  676. 
