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a pale greenish-blue. There 

 are from eight to twelve 

 breasts on each side, with 

 four grains in a breast." 



Black Six-rowed Andriolo 

 Wheat. 



The ear of wheat here 

 shown represents a mongrel, 

 or hybrid variety of wheat, 

 as may be readily perceived 

 by the rough appearance of 

 the glumes, the irregularity 

 of the rows of kernels, and 

 the destitution of awns at 

 certain parts of the head. 

 This variety has not been 

 introduced sufficiently to 

 warrant a recommendation. 

 I simply give it a place to 

 show the difference between 

 a pure and well-established 

 variety and a mongrel. This 

 Black Six-rowed Andriolo 

 Wheat is the product of a bald and 

 bearded variety, the kernels of one 

 of which were impregnated with the 

 pollen of the other variety. Such va- 

 rieties should always be discarded for 

 seed, as the yield will always be less 

 satisfactory than when good seed of a 

 pure variety is selected and sowed 

 from year to year. 



Fig. 21.-— Black Andriolo wheat 



