It was nearly six inches in length, and seeded large and plump from top to bottom.

This is a variety produced by Mr.Hallett, of Brighton, and is creating no little interest among English grain-growers.
Lord Burghley, who had tested its properties, thus describes it, in a speech before the Northamptonshire Agricultural Society last summer:-- "At the Battersea Show last year, my attention was called to some enormous ears of wheat, which I thought could not have been grown in England.

For, although the British farmer can grow corn with anyone, I had never seen such wheat here, and thought it must be foreign wheat.

I went to the person who was threshing some out, and having been informed that it was sown only with one seed in a hole, I procured some of Mr.Hallett, of Brighton; and, being anxious to try the system, I planted it according to Mr.Hallett's directions-- one grain in a hole, the holes nine and a half inches apart, with six inches between the rows.

To satisfy myself on the subject, I also planted some according to Stephen's instructions, who said three grains in a hole would produce the most profitable return.