Garber: Origin of False Wild Oats 



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LOWER AND UPPER SEEDS OF OAT SPIKELETS 



These seeds represent the parents and selected plants from the second generation of an oat 

 cross In the top row are the seeds of the brown hairy Fatua (left) and Garton 748 (right)- 1 he 

 other three rows show the paired seeds from twelve second generation segregates, (tig. 24.) 



grown in rows in close proximity only 

 to other selections of Victory and the 

 check (Improved Ligowa). The Gar- 

 ton 784 selection in which false wild 

 oats were found, was made in 1915. 



The varieties or the pure line selections 

 which were grown after the year 1916 

 in rows adjacent to this particular 

 selection of Garton 784 were all white- 

 seeded forms and most of them were 



