The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . is one circumstance attending thetillering of autumn-sown Wheat, which I have rarelyseen noticed, though it is known to many. In ordinaryseasons, the plant forms a ring or collar, about 1 inchabove the original winter roots, and from that collarbranch forward all the secondary plants, or tillers, whichproduce the supernumerary ears you allude to. Untilthe month of March, the first-formed leaves are sup-ported by the few fibrous roots that emerge in autumn ;hence, as these trace the surface soil only, the Wheat-plant is frequently disrooted by
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . is one circumstance attending thetillering of autumn-sown Wheat, which I have rarelyseen noticed, though it is known to many. In ordinaryseasons, the plant forms a ring or collar, about 1 inchabove the original winter roots, and from that collarbranch forward all the secondary plants, or tillers, whichproduce the supernumerary ears you allude to. Untilthe month of March, the first-formed leaves are sup-ported by the few fibrous roots that emerge in autumn ;hence, as these trace the surface soil only, the Wheat-plant is frequently disrooted by severe frost, and byfierce wind. In March, however, when a tiller is pro-truded, a second series of roots emerge connected withit, and these are more fleshy, and tap perpendicularlytowards the sub-soil. Strange to say, in this backwardseason, this second process is far more inert, and theplants now (April), assume more closely the habits ofspring Wheat, which does not develope two sets of roots,but taps at once. I send a specimen of White Suffolk. Wheat, sown late in October,] ust raised from the a, we have the early or winter fibres; at b, the ringor node, whence the first tiller arises, and below it is therudiment of the real, or tap-root: at this period of 1844,or rather a month earlier, this root was an inch long,firm and vigorous. The whole process however is oneof deep interest, aud adds force to your observations ;it also speaks volumes for thin sowing.—>/. Towers, Berks. Societies. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF Monthly Council was held at the Societys House,in Hanover Square, on Wednesday last, the 7th of May ;present: The Right. Hon. Earl Spencer, in the Hill, Hon. R. H. Clive, M,P., Colonel Austen,M,P., T. R, Barker, Esq , J, R, Barker, Esq., J. Beard,Esq,, S. Bennett, Esq , W, R. Browne, Esq,, F. Burke,Esq., Rev. T. Cator, Colonel Challoner, F, C, Cherry,Esq., Rev. J. Y. Cooke, H. Colman, Esq , W. Y. Free-body, Esq,, H, Gibbs
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