Note E315 — 51.

Buckwheat, Dutch boekweit, Ger. buckwaitzen, from the resemblance of its triangular seeds to beech-nuts, a name adopted with its culture from the Dutch.—It is a tender plant, and must be sown late.—M. It is also very proper to sow it (bucke) before wheat, the ground is made clean and fine by it, and it sufficing itself with a Froth leaves the solid Strength for the Wheat.—T.R. (May). Polygonum Fagopyrum, Linn.