. Botany for high schools. Botany. 396 GENERAL MORPHOLOGY OF PLANTS latitudes they are often sown in the autumn, since tne winters are rarely severe enough to kill the young plants. Oats are grown chiefly for stock feeding, but oatmeal for household use is obtained by special processes for removing the closely adhering pabts. 559. Barley.—Barley resembles w^heat in the form of the fruiting heads, but is like oats in the grain being permanently and closely covered by the palets. It is grown from arctic to tropical regions, being accli- mated over a greater region than other cereals. Barley is c
. Botany for high schools. Botany. 396 GENERAL MORPHOLOGY OF PLANTS latitudes they are often sown in the autumn, since tne winters are rarely severe enough to kill the young plants. Oats are grown chiefly for stock feeding, but oatmeal for household use is obtained by special processes for removing the closely adhering pabts. 559. Barley.—Barley resembles w^heat in the form of the fruiting heads, but is like oats in the grain being permanently and closely covered by the palets. It is grown from arctic to tropical regions, being accli- mated over a greater region than other cereals. Barley is chietly used for making malt in breweries, though both the grain and straw are used as food for stock. It is also used for making certain of the fine grades of whisky, as Scotch whisky. Spring or summer barley is a four-rowed species (Hordeum vulgare), while win- ter barley (H. liexaslichon) is six-rowed and earlier intro- duced into cultivation. 560. Rice. — This cereal {Oryza saiiva) is grown chiefly in China, Japan, India, and the East Indies, which is said to have been its home. It is extensively cultivated in this country in South Carolina, which produces the best rice in the world, and in Louisiana. The industry is being developed in other South Adantic Gulf States. It requires a rich moist soil, which can be flooded at certain seasons, though varieties are being developed which grow under drier conditions. Rice is a nutritious food, and the water in which it is cooked is said to contain a great part of the nutriment. Rice is the principal cereal food for a large part. Fig. 386. Barley heads (grown at Pullman, Wash.) From Bureau Plant Industry. i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Atkinson, George Francis, 1854-1918. New York, H. Holt and Company
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