160 BULLETIN" 1074, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



obtained by the writers from Mr. Stewart and from the Federal Board of 

 Review, Chicago, 111., and the wheat was found not to be Kubanka and was 

 also determined to be more nearly a common than a durum wheat. As the 

 variety had been grown in Sevier County, Utah, for 25 years or more, it was 

 named Sevier by Stewart (187, p. 25), of the Utah station. 

 Distribution. — Grown in Utah. 





DIEHL-MEDITERRANEAN. 



Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, midtall to tall; stem white, 

 midstrong; spike awned, fusiform, middense, inclined to nodding; glumes gla- 

 brous, brown, midlong, midwide; shoulders midwide, rounded to oblique to 

 elevated ; beaks 1 to 8 mm. long ; awns 3 to 7 cm. long ; kernels pale red, mid- 

 long, soft, ovate to elliptical; germ midsized; crease narrow to midwide, mid- 

 deep ; cheeks usually rounded ; brush mid- 

 sized, midlong to long. 



Diehl-Mediterranean differs from Med- 

 iterranean principally in having white 

 straw and a smaller kernel. A spike, 

 glumes, and kernels of Diehl-Mediterranean 

 wheat are shown in Plate XLV, A. 



History. — The Diehl-Mediterranean was 

 advertised and distributed by Peter Hen- 

 derson & Co., seedsmen, of New York City, 

 for the first time in 1884, and is said by 

 them to have originated by fertilizing the 

 Red Mediterranean with the pollen of the 

 Diehl (110, 1884). The same history is 

 given in an article in the Rural New Yorker 

 of the same year, in which it is also said 

 that the variety originated in Monroe 

 County, N, Y., but by whom was not noted 

 (18). The Diehl wheat was a white-kerneled wheat with a clavate spike, prob- 

 ably similar to Seneca Chief. During the late eighties the Diehl-Mediterranean 

 was distributed widely by the United States Department of Agriculture in the 

 congressional seed distribution. 



Distribution. — Grown as Diehl-Mediterranean in Michigan, New York, and 

 Pennsylvania, and under the name of synonyms in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, 

 Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, 

 Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. This distribution is shown 

 in Figure 63. 



Synonyms. — Auburn, Big Four, Big Ten, Blue Ridge, Eclipse, Hybrid Mediter- 

 ranean, Michigan Bronze, Michigan Brown, Miller's Choice, Rattle Jack, Russian 

 Amber, Shepherd's Perfection, Shepherd's Prolific, and Spade. 



Auburn is the name under which a wheat identical with Diehl-Mediterranean 

 was obtained from the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station in 1917. It is 

 not known to be commercially grown. Big Four, which also was found to be 

 identical with Diehl-Mediterranean, was obtained from A. J. Hagman, of 

 Hawesville, Hancock County, Ky., who stated that it had been grown for eight 

 years in that vicinity, where it constitutes 33 per cent of the wheat acreage. 

 It also is grown in Cass County, Ind. Big Ten also is Diehl-Mediterranean, 

 as grown in Ripley County, Ind., and Henderson County, Ky. Blue Ridge is a 

 name under which samples of wheat similar to Diehl-Mediterranean have been 

 obtained from the Kentucky and Virginia stations. Its further history is unde- 

 termined. Blue Ridge was reported in 1919 from North Carolina, New Jersey, 



Fig. 63. — Outline map of a portion 

 of the United States, showing the 

 distribution of Diehl-Mediterranean 

 wheat in 1919. Estimated area, 

 114,700 acres. . 



