CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 119 



EOCHESTEE (EOCHESTEE EED). 



Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, midtall; stem purple, strong, 

 stout; spike awnless, very clavate, dense, erect; glumes glabrous, brown, mid- 

 long to long, midwide ; shoulders wide, oblique to square ; beaks midwide, obtuse, 

 0.5 to 1 mm. long ; apical awns several, 3 to 20 mm. long ; kernels red, small to 

 midlong, soft, ovate, humped ; germ small ; crease midwide, middeep, pitted ; 

 cheeks rounded ; brush midsized, midlong to long. 



Rochester wheat has an extremely dense, clavate spike which distinguishes 

 it from most other varieties. Spikes, glumes, and kernels of Rochester wheat 

 are shown in Plate XXX, B. 



History. — The origin of this variety is undetermined. It was advertised by 

 Henderson (110) as early as 1891. 



Distribution. — Grown as Rochester Red in Monroe County, N. Y., and as Pride 

 of the Valley in Morris County, N. J. 



Synonyms. — Pride of the Valley and Shepherd's Tennessee Fultz. A wheat 

 called Pride of the Valley, identical with Rochester, was obtained from Morris 

 County, N. J., in 1919, where it had been grown for eight years. Shepherd's 

 Tennessee Fultz is of undetermined origin. A sample under this name, but 

 apparently identical with Rochester, was obtained in 1912 from the Cornell 

 University Agricultural Experiment Station, which had received it from In- 

 diana. It is not known to be commercially grown. 



BED CHIEF (EABLY EED CHIEF). 



Description. — Red Chief is nearly identical with Rochester, but the spike is 

 not quite as dense. 



History. — Early Red Chief is reported by Henderson (110, 1903) to have 

 originated from Early Red Clawson and Red Arcadian. By whom it was 

 originated is uot stated. 



Distribution. — This variety is not known to be grown commercially at the 

 present time. Samples were obtained from the Cornell University Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



SCHLANSTEDT (EIMPAU's EED SCHLANSTEDTEE SOMMEEWE1ZEN) . 



Description. — Plant spring habit, late, tall; stem very glaucous before matur- 

 ity, white, midstrong; spike awnless, fusiform, sometimes nearly oblong, mid- 

 dense, erect to inclined ; glumes glabrous, brown, midlong, midwide ; shoulders 

 wanting to midwide, oblique ; beaks wide, incurved, acute, 1 mm. long ; apical 

 awns few, 3 to 10 mm. long; kernels red, short to midlong, soft, ovate; germ 

 midsized ; crease narrow to midwide, shallow to middeep, triangular ; cheeks 

 angular ; brush midsized, midlong. 



This variety is distinguished from other brown-glumed, red-kerneled spring 

 wheats by the glaucous stem and leaves. 



History.— Scblandstcdt is a spring form of wheat originated by Dr. Wilhelm 

 kinipau in 1889 at Schlanstedt, Germany, from a Bordeaux winter wheat (l'/2, 

 p. 192). A sample of this variety was introduced by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in 1909, but was not distributed. A field of the variety was 

 found growing miles north of Reardan, Wash., by a member of the Portland 

 laboratory of the office of grain standardization, United States Department of 

 * Agriculture, in the summer of 1915. The history of its introduction is not known. 



Distribution. — Grown to a very limited extent in Washington. 



