. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. QL UMALES. 455 .^^Uopa ovata. From it, in the course of from ten to twelve years, lie succeeded in producing the form known as cultivated wheat. (See Gardener'3 Ghroniele, July, 1853.) Secale cereale, Kye, is probably a native of Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia. It has been cultivated for ages and is still much grown in temperate climates. Hordeum vulgare, Barley. A native probably of the same region as Rye ; has also been long under cultivation. One or two other species are also grown. Avena saliva, the Oat, was formerly much used as f
. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. QL UMALES. 455 .^^Uopa ovata. From it, in the course of from ten to twelve years, lie succeeded in producing the form known as cultivated wheat. (See Gardener'3 Ghroniele, July, 1853.) Secale cereale, Kye, is probably a native of Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia. It has been cultivated for ages and is still much grown in temperate climates. Hordeum vulgare, Barley. A native probably of the same region as Rye ; has also been long under cultivation. One or two other species are also grown. Avena saliva, the Oat, was formerly much used as food for man especially in cool climates, where it succeeds best. It is now less used. Its native country is not certainly known, but it was probably northern Europe or Asia. Oryza sati/oa, Eice, has been long under culture in Southeastern Asia, of which country it was probably a native. It is now cultivated also in Egypt, Italy, Brazil, and' the Southern United States. It furnishes food to more human beings than any other single plant. Zea Mais, Maize or Indian Corn, a native of the warmer parts of the New World, was culti- vated by the aborigines of both North and South America before the advent of Europeans. It is one of the most valuable of the cereals, and is now cultivated almost all over the world. Of its numberless varieties the larger are grown in the hotter, and the smaller in the cooler climates. The more important forage grasses are the fol- he^^d?^~"fl^fe" Sf lowing: Eice. Phlewm pratense, Timothy or Herd's Grass, a native of Europe is val- uable on rich soils. Agroatis vulgaris, Red-top, a native of Europe, grows well on moist soils. Dactylis glomerata. Orchard Grass, a native of Europe, is valuable because of its growing well in the shade, and so furnishing hay and pasture in orchards and woodlands. Poa pratensis, Kentucky Blue Grass, a native of the Eastern United States and of Europe, is in the latitude of Kentucky the best of all our pasture grasses.
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