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Marquis, Ruby and Prelude were all produced by cross- 

 breeding. Marquis resulted from a single cross, Ruby 

 from two successive crosses, and Prelude from three suc- 

 cessive crosses. Their respective genealogical trees may 

 be represented as follows : 



Parentage of Marquis 

 Hard Eed Calcutta (f.) X Ked Fife (m.) A. P. Saunders, 1892 



\ / 



Marquis 



Parentage of Ruby 

 Gehun (f.) X Onega (m.) W. T. Macoun, 1891 



\ / 



Downy Eiga (f.) X Red Fife (m.) C. E. Saunders, 1905 



\ / 



Euby 



Parentage of Prelude =2 

 Ladoga (f.) X White Fife (m.) A. P. Saunders, 1888 



\ / 



Alpha (f.) X Hard Red Calcutta (m.) . .A. P. Saunders, 1892 



\ / 



Eraser (m.) X (downy) Gehun (f.) . C. E. Saunders, 1903 



\ / 



Prelude 



Hard Eed Calcutta and Gehun were brought to Canada 

 from India, and Ladoga and Onega from northern Russia. 

 Red Fife came from central Europe (probably Galicia) 

 via, the ports of Danzig and Glasgow; and White Pife is 

 believed to be one of its derivatives.®* Marquis, Ruby, 



52 C. E. Saunders, Experimental Farm Eeports for 1911-12, Ot- 

 tawa, 1913, p. 118. 



53 W. Saunders, Ladoga Wheat, Central Experimental Farm, Bul- 

 letin No. 4, 1889, p. 4; also C. E. Saunders, Evidence before the 

 Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization, Ot- 

 tawa, 1905. 



Eed Fife is named after David Fife upon whose farm Eed Fife orig- 



