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following particulars respecting some comparative trials of different kinds of 
wheat made by him, viz. 
Qrs. Bs. Gs. 
Hoary white, produced per acre .......3 4 3 
'Fulham .... ditto.......3 4 2 
White straw .. ditto. 3 4 0 
Yellow Lammas. ..... ditto.. .3 0 0 
Brown ditto . *....ditto.. 2 4 
In another year’s trial, still the hoary white kept the superiority, 
both in point of quantity and price; having fetched one shilling and one 
shilling and sixpence per quarter more, at market, than any of the other 
kinds. Mr. Boys says, these trials were all made on the same field, the soil 
exactly the same, all sowed in one day, managed precisely in the same 
manner, laid separately in the barn, and carefully threshed and measured. 
It is to be observed, that the soil in that part of the country is very 
light, so that the hoary white , which succeeded so well here, might not be 
so successful on a strong soil. The Fulham, which in this trial approaches 
nearest to the hoary-white, Mr. Boys says, is a coarse wheat, with thick bran, 
and of inferior value. He adds, that the egg-shell-white is a good deal in 
use in that part of the country; but that he does not approve of it, from the 
facility it has of dropping its grain in the field, which would not suit his 
bleak and exposed situation; otherwise, it is a species much esteemed by 
the millers.* Perhaps this defect might be overcome by reaping it 
somewhat sooner than common. 
Respectable and useful as every branch of the husbandman’s art certainly 
is, no one part is more interesting to the public, or more likely to prove 
advantageous to those who may be so fortunate as to succeed in it, than 
that of inuring plants, natives of warmer climates, to bear, without covering, 
the ungenial springs, the chilly summers, and the rigorous winters, by 
which, especially for some years past, we have been perpetually visited. 
Many attempts have been made in this line, and several valuable shrubs, 
that used to be kept in our stoves, are now to be seen in the open ground: 
there is, however, some reason to believe, that several of these w r ere 
* Bond. Soc. Trans. Vol. lit. p. 1 q, &c. For the varieties of wheat consult the last edition of 
Miller’s Gardener’s Dictionary. 
