158 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



This variety is distinct in having a clavate spike and hard white kernels. 

 A spike, glumes, and kernels of this variety are shown in Plate XLIII, B. 



History. — Genesee Giant (Early Genesee Giant) was first distributed by 

 A. N. Jones, of Newark, Wayne County, N. Y., the originator, in 1893. It was 

 advertised by Peter Henderson & Co., seedsmen, of New York, in 1894, and de- 

 scribed elaborately and recommended highly by them. It is the result of a 

 composite cross which has been recorded by Carleton (58, p. 71), as follows: 



Mediterranean Q O Fultz. 



Eussian Velvet Q O No. 87. 



Lancaster O O Winter Fife. 



Hybrid Q O Iron Straw. 



Early White Leader O. O Hybrid. 



Hybrid Q O Winter Fife. 



Golden Cross Jr. Q O Hybrid. 



I 

 Hybrid Q O Iron Straw. 



O 

 Early Genesee Giant. 



Distribution. — Grown in Davis and Weber Counties, Utah, and experimentally 

 in the eastern United States. 



Synonyms. — Farmers Trust, Giant Squarehead, Pedigree Giant, Genesee, 

 Golden Cross. 



Farmers Trust is a local name which has recently become used for Genesee 

 Giant in Idaho, Montana, and Nebraska. Giant Squarehead is a wheat similar 

 to Genesee Giant obtained from the Cornell University Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. Pedigree Giant is a wheat similar to Genesee Giant obtained 

 from the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station in 1912. A wheat was dis- 

 tributed by A. N. Jones as Pedigree Genesee Giant in 1894, the year following 

 the distribution of Genesee Giant. This doubtless accounts for this name. It 

 is possible that the original Genesee Giant was somewhat mixed and a pure 

 strain was distributed later. Genesee is a shortened name used by growers in 

 Utah. Golden Cross is the name under which a sample of wheat similar to 

 Genesee Giant was obtained from the Indiana station through the Cornell 

 University Agricultural Experiment Station in 1912. This name is listed for a 

 wheat originated by A. N. Jones in 1886, heading the list of varieties which he 

 originated, which appears on his stationery. The name Golden Cross, there- 

 fore, probably is wrongly applied to this wheat. 



CANADIAN KED. 



Description. — Plant spring habit, early, short ; stem white, slender, weak ; 

 spike awned, oblong-fusiform, middense, inclined ; glumes glabrous, brown, 

 long, midwide ; shoulders midwide, oblique to elevated ; beaks 2 to 20 mm. long ; 

 awns 2 to 6 cm. long ; kernels white, midlong, semihard to hard, ovate, humped, 

 curved ; germ midsized ; crease middeep, shallow to midcleep ; cheeks rounded ; 

 brush small, short. 



History. — The origin of Canadian Red is undetermined. It was obtained in 

 July, 1919, from F. G. Stokes, of Kelseyville, Calif., who reported that it con- 

 stituted 15 per cent of the wheat grown in the vicinity of Kelseyville, Lake 

 County, Calif. 



