The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . the size of the plants but does not immediatelyalter their character. Did it frequently happen thatso great a change as the aItcr,ition of Kubanka Wheat higher than anything mentioned by M. Fabre—carrying corns eight-tenths of a grain in weight, aweight far exceeding that of the corns of SaxonkaWheat, but no change seems to be coming over thestructure of the plant. The Kubanka variety ofWheat tillers well in good soil, throwing up strongstalks and prolilic ears; but in poor soils Saxonkahas greatly th
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . the size of the plants but does not immediatelyalter their character. Did it frequently happen thatso great a change as the aItcr,ition of Kubanka Wheat higher than anything mentioned by M. Fabre—carrying corns eight-tenths of a grain in weight, aweight far exceeding that of the corns of SaxonkaWheat, but no change seems to be coming over thestructure of the plant. The Kubanka variety ofWheat tillers well in good soil, throwing up strongstalks and prolilic ears; but in poor soils Saxonkahas greatly the advantage over it, being a Wheat thewhole structure of which in the present age isslighter, and more easily ripened. Its early andcomplete ripening also brings the embryo further for-ward, and makes its regermination more certain thanin the case of the later Kubanka, so that when thetwo varieties get mixed up together in the operationsof ordinary and careless husbandry, the crop uponpoor or exhausted soils, unable to grow the heavierKubanka, will consist year after year of greater and. Fig. S3.—r,.\RRY.\ fremonti ; male catkins, (see p. 430.) By July 14 the Saxonka was a good deal rusted,(he Kubanka being at that time unaffected. Rustingcame on in the same way with the crop of 1S7S, whenby spreading newspapers and shaking the stalks Icollected a pill-boxful of the spores. By-and-byethe Kubanka was also covered with rust. I had thensome hope that if the rust had a certain date of deve-[lopment the late sown rows, which were still brightigreen, might escape. But no ; whenever they camejto the same stage of maturity the lines of rust alsoappeared. From a statement in Lawsons Manual(p. 15), that Continental Wheats, although affectedwith rust the first crop after importation, get overthe disease, I concluded that the worst was past in;rop 1S7S. This was not the case, for the rustinglow proceeded till the whole of the plants of bothvarieties were utterly destroyed, not a sound
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