~ 
A GRAIN OF 
RYE 
It will be readily seen that there are numerous small differences between this seed and that of 
wheat, and that the influence of rye would be clearly discernible, if present, in a hybrid. 
After carefully examining the descriptions of Carman’s various supposed wheat-rye 
hybrids, 
hybrid, the rest being nothing 
and 55, originated by crossing different 
varieties of wheat. These were offered 
in August, 1889, by J. M. poe & 
Co: aE New York City, at 25 cents for 
a package containing twenty- ae grains, 
or the collection of six sorts for $1. 
Mr. Leighty reaches the conclusion that only one of his original nine was a real 
but wheat. 
Photograph much enlarged. (Fig. 16.) 
In 1890 these six varieties were 
distributed free to applicants by the 
Rural New Yorker, and the varieties of 
special interest here were named as 
follows: 
“No. 2 (hybrid wheat-rye) has been named 
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