. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Book VI. MAIZE, OR INDIAN CORN. P2f) Sl'bsect. 1. Maize, or Indian. Corn.—Zea Mays i. ; Monce^cia Tridndria L., and Grami
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Book VI. MAIZE, OR INDIAN CORN. P2f) Sl'bsect. 1. Maize, or Indian. Corn.—Zea Mays i. ; Monce^cia Tridndria L., and Graminece J. Le Mais, or Ble de Turquie, Fr.; der Mays, Germ. ; Gran turco, Ital. ; and Maiz, Span. 5149. The maize is the noblest looking of the cereal grasses. It is considered to be a native of South America, to have been cultivated in iNIexico and Peru from time im- memorial, to have been introduced to Europe about the beginning of the 16th centurs', and to England in 1562. It is at present cultivated in almost every part of the universe where the summer temperature equals or exceeds that common to latitude 45°, and even to 48°. In France, in Arthui Young's time (1787), the principal country of the maize was to the south of a line drawn from Bordeaux to Strasbourg, in lat. 4S° 35'; but it is at present cultivated as far north as Nancy, which is in latitude 49", — a fact which shows that this grain is taking a wider range of temperature. " It flourishes on tlie western continent from about the 40th degree of southern to higher than the 45th degree of northern latitude. It is extensively produced in Africa and in Asia ; on all the shorts of the iVIediterranean, in Spain, Italy, part of France, and the countries of tlie Levant, it is the food in most common use. Of the cultivated Cerealia, indeed, it is that vvliich, next to the rice, supplies food to the greatest number of the human race; and it may be held to be the most valuable gift of the new world to tlie ol
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