Millets

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Read about Millets in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Millets are important agricultural grasses. The true millet or Broom-corn millet of Europe is Panicum miliaceum. The common millets of the United States, the Foxtail millets, are forms of Setaria italica. African millet, also called Black, Chinese. Indian, and improperly Pearl millet, is Holcus Sorghum. The name African millet is sometimes applied to Eleusine Coracana. Barnyard or Japanese millet is Echinochloa frumentacea. Pearl millet is Pennisetum americanum. Dept. Agric., Farmer's Bull. No. 101 is devoted to foxtail millets. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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