DCHP-3

tea wheat

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1832 quote.

Quotations

1830
The Committee received from Miramichi . . . fifteen bushels of the celebrated Tea Wheat. . . .
1832
Some years ago, a person, on opening a chest of tea, found in one corner a small quantity of wheat; how it got there no one can tell. Whether in London, on the chest being opened by the East Indian Company, or in China, is equally uncertain; but the seed was sown in New Brunswick; it grew and flourished better than any previously sown. The produce was preserved, sown again, and multiplied so rapidly, that it is, at the present time, the kind of seed-wheat generally sown, and known by the distinction of "tea wheat."