A Description And History of Vegetable Substances : Used in the Arts, And in Domestic Economy : Timber Trees, Fruits
A Description And History of Vegetable Substances : Used in the Arts, And in Domestic Economy : Timber Trees, Fruits
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The leaves are thirty inches long, and two inches wide in the broadest part. The flowers, when they first come out in large panicles at the top of the stalk, resemble the male spikes of the maize plant. These flowers are succeeded by roundish seeds, the colour of which is, in some cases, a milky white, with a black umbilical dot ; in others the seeds are red, but in both cases they are wrapped round with the chaff, and aie ♦ Travels in Nubia, p. 280. y Google 118 VEOETABLB SUBSTANCES. better pr...otected from feathered depredators than other kinds of mUlet This grain was introduced into cultivatioQ in Switzerland about the middle of the last century by M. Tschifieli, who receiYcd about a spoonful of the seed from Dr. Schreber. M, Tschifieli published an account of his method of cultivation in the Transf actions of the Berne Society ; some extracts from which paper will suffice to show the edibilities of this grain when cultivated in northern lati- tudes. Among the advantages which it offers are stated, its adaptation to all sorts of soils, the small quantity of manure which it requires, the trifling amount of labour for which it calls, and the small degree of exhaustion which it occasions to the soil, in comparison with the largeness of the return which it yields.
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