Excerpt from The Distinguishing Characters of the Seeds of Quack-Grass and of Certain Wheat-Grasses Examination of samples of brome-grass seed taken from imported lots Shows that seed from Europe invariably contains seed of quack grass, which is rarely found in seed from Canada. In the place of quack-grass Seed the Canadian brome - grass seed usually contains seed of one or ather of the wheat-grasses which are native to the Western States and to Canada and which have much the same habit of growth as quack - grass. Since these wheat-grasses are native to this country and to Canada, their seeds do t appear in brome - grass seed im ported from Europe. The seeds of the wheat-grasses are so similar to those of quack-grass that they may readily be mistaken for the latter. It becomes important, therefore, that the presence of the seed of quack-grass in brome-grass seed be detected with certainty and that lots of brome-grass seed carrying seed of wheat-grass only may be distinguished and t rejected as suspected of containing quack-grass seed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.