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continent friticum irimestre, or three months’ wheat, becauseit frequently ripens in three months alter sowing, is muchcultivated in various parts of France ; and from the Addressof the President to the Board of Agriculture in June 1810,it appears that specimens of above thirty varieties of wheat,principally the summer sorts, were transmitted to him, by thePresident of the Agricultural Society of Paris , which havebeen divided among several of the most distinguished agri*-culturists of England and Scotland for trial, that they mayreport to the Board how far their cultivation ought to beencouraged. The Reporter tried summer wheat for threesuccessive years; but neither was its quantity or quality suchas to encourage a continuance of it in preference to oatsor barley. In his experience the crops did not exceed 18bushels, which at 7 s. per bushel gave only a produceworth L. 6, Gs. pa• acre; while equal land produced 3Gbushels of barley, which at Is. per bushel were worthL. 7, 4 s. per acre. It is stated in the Report of the He-brides , p. 228, that John Earl of Loudon introducedthis kind of wheat from the island of Jersey into Ayr-shire in 1766, where it was sown on a heavy clay soil onthe 7th of April, and reaped on the 26th of September,yielding a produce of 32 bushels to the statute acre, of grainalmost equal in quality to winter wheat. This instance can-not be considered as conclusive in its favour ; as heavy claysoil, is peculiarly adapted to the culture of winter wheat,and would probably have produced four or more additionalbushels from each acre. It is proper however to state, thatfor some years past, the true triticum eestivum, has been culti-vated with much success by Mr Hunter of Tynefield in EastLothian , and has been found to answer, in several districts ofEngland, more especially in Lincolnshire and Devonshire.