"Here's another picture, Uncle Oscar."
"Did you ever eat rye-bread, Arthur?"
"Why, yes, Uncle Oscar! we had it for breakfast."
Well, here is a picture of rye as it grows in the field. It is one of the best of grain-bearing grasses. It will grow
where the weather is very cold. The straw is often worth almost as much as the grain.
RYE.
"Rye grows on poor, light soils, which are altogether unfit for the wheat out of which we make our white bread. Sometimes we mix rye-flour with wheaten-flour, or with corn-meal, and so get a very good kind of bread."
"Can I plant some flax-seed, and barley, and rye?" asked Arthur.
"Yes, my boy," said Uncle Oscar. "You shall have some to plant in your garden next May. I think you will be pleased with the flax-plant, because of its pretty blue-flower."