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and Pennsylvania. Eclipse is a wheat similar to Diehl-Mediterranean, except 

 that sometimes it has a slightly elevated shoulder. This wheat was first ob- 

 tained by the United States Department of Agriculture from T. W. Wood & 

 Sons, seedsmen, of Richmond, Va., in 1S99. Its previous history is undeter- 

 mined. Eclipse was reported from Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. 

 Hybrid Mediterranean is a name early used for Diehl-Mediterranean wheat and 

 often is referred to in literature as a synonym of that variety. 



Michigan Bronze is a name which was recognized as a synonym of Diehl- 

 Mediterranean wheat by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station as early as 

 1S88. It apparently is a name under which Diehl-Mediterranean wheat was 

 advertised and distributed by Thorburn & Co., seedsmen, of New York City, as 

 early as 1889. The name, however, was recorded for a wheat by C. S. Plumb 

 as early as 1877. It was reported from Michigan and Tennessee in 1919. 

 Michigan Brown apparently is a name used by some growers of Michigan 

 Bronze. 



Miller's Choice apparently is identical with Diehl-Mediterranean. It has 

 been grown by the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, but was 

 not reported in the varietal survey. According to Prof. G. M. Garren, of North 

 Carolina station, the wheat now called Miller's Choice was bought as seed 

 wheat by B. B. Miller, of Salisbury, N. C, from some one in Maryland, who 

 called it " Spade " wheat. It was tried on Mr. Miller's place and later on the 

 Iredell Farm of the North Carolina station at Statesville, N. C, and did well 

 in each place. As the name " Spade " was not familiar to these men, it was 

 rechristened " Miller's Choice," in honor of Mr. Miller. 



Rattle Jack is the same as Diehl-Mediterranean and is the principal variety 

 grown in Crawford County, Kans. It also is grown in Cherokee and Neosho 

 Counties, Kans., and Osage County, Okla. It was also reported from Madison 

 and Marion Counties, 111., but according to Leighty the wheat there grown as 

 Rattle Jack is of Gipsy type. Its history is undetermined. Russian Amber is a 

 name under which samples of wheat identical with Diehl-Mediterranean have 

 been received from the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station. Its history 

 is undetermined and it is not known to be commercially grown. Shepherd's 

 Perfection grown in 14 counties in Michigan is for the most part Diehl-Mediter- 

 ranean. One sample obtained from Ceresco, Calhoun County, proved to be 

 Goens. Shepherd's Prolific is a name under which a sample identical with 

 Diehl-Mediterranean was obtained from the Indiana Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. It was reported from Jennings County, Ind., and Delaware and Rich- 

 land Counties, Ohio. Spade is identical with Diehl-Mediterranean. The origin 

 of the name Spade is undetermined. Wheat under that name was first obtained 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture from Pennsylvania in 1903. It 

 was reported from Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Penn- 

 sylvania. Tennessee, and Virginia. 



Description. — Plant winter liabit, late, midtall ; stem white, strong; spike 

 awned, fusiform, middense, Inclined; glumes glabrous, brown, midlong, nar- 

 row; shoulders wanting to mirrow. elevated; beaks 2 to 10 nun. long; awns 

 .''. to 7 cm, long; sometimes black; kernels red, midlong, semihard, ovate to 

 elliptical, acute; germ eunpJl; crease midwide, shallow t<> middeep; cheeks 

 rounded to angular; brush midsized, midlong to long. 



Lao differs from Diehl-Mediterranean principally in being later and 

 snorter and In having narrower :■ mi darkev colored glumes :ui<\, under some 

 condil long, black awns. 



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