Note 42 — Chapter IX · CULTIVATED PLANTS: CEREAL AND CULINARY PLANTS.
Reading edition
‘On the Varieties of Wheat,’ p. 59. Mr. Shirreff, 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.”