[553] Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, 'Céréales,' part ii. p. 224. Le Couteur, p. 70. Many other accounts could be added.
[554] 'Travels in North America,' 1753-1761, Eng. translat., vol. iii. p. 165.
[555] 'Céréales,' part ii. pp. 179-183.
[556] 'On the Varieties of Wheat,' Introduct., p. vii. See Marshall, 'Rural Econ. of Yorkshire,' vol. ii. p. 9. With respect to similar cases of adaptation in the varieties of oats, see some interesting papers in the 'Gardener's Chron. and Agricult. Gazette,' 1850, pp. 204, 219.
[557] 'On the Varieties of Wheat,' p. 59. Mr. Sheriff, and a higher authority cannot be given ('Gard. Chron. and Agricult. Gazette,' 1862, p. 963), says, "I have never seen grain which has either been improved or degenerated by cultivation, so as to convey the change to the succeeding crop."
[558] Alph. De Candolle, 'Géograph. Bot.,' p. 930.
[559] 'Pflanzen der Pfahlbauten,' 1866.
[560] 'Les Céréales,' p. 94.
[561] Quoted by Le Couteur, p. 16.
[562] A. De Candolle, 'Géograph. Bot.,' p. 932.