Show wheat does not grow wild the existence of names for wheat in the most ancient languages confirms the evidence of its great antiquity and of ita cultivation m the more temperate parts of europe asia and africa from the evidence adduced by botanists of high standing it seems highly improbable that wheat has never been found grow ing persistently in a wild state although it has often by poets travelers and historians in the odyssey for we are told that wheat formerly in sicily without the aid of man diodoros Dio dorus repeats the tradition that osiris found wheat and barley growing promiscuously in palestine but neither this noi other deput re put discoveries of wheat growing wild seem atau at au credible seeing that it does not appear to be endowed with the power of persistency except under continued culture st louis republic |