. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Fiu. 9.—Whfat. .1, spikelot of beardless wheat, enlarged. F, flower .spread. C, D, E, bracts. G, pistil with stamens, and a pair oflodiculos at base. K\ K^, kernel. R, rachis. (Baillon.) whom they brought the first-fruits of their maize-harvest, as the Romans brought their offerings of grain to Earliest use of grains. Although we may be surethat the cultivation of the grains began many years beforethe time of our earhest records concerning them, we haveno means of knowing how long ago they were first plantedas a cr
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Fiu. 9.—Whfat. .1, spikelot of beardless wheat, enlarged. F, flower .spread. C, D, E, bracts. G, pistil with stamens, and a pair oflodiculos at base. K\ K^, kernel. R, rachis. (Baillon.) whom they brought the first-fruits of their maize-harvest, as the Romans brought their offerings of grain to Earliest use of grains. Although we may be surethat the cultivation of the grains began many years beforethe time of our earhest records concerning them, we haveno means of knowing how long ago they were first plantedas a crop; nor have we any definite knowledge of how anyone of them first came to Ix cultivated. Still there is to suppose that before the advantages of plantingwere discovered, it was the custom to gather the wild grainwhen it was ripe, as certain savage tribes do with othergrains at the present daj. Thus it would happen naturally CEREALS 21. Fig. 10.—Common barloy (Hordcum sativum, var. vulqarc. Grass Family,Graminece). Plant, fiower-cUistor, spikclet, flower, and fruit. (Baillon.) 22
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