﻿SOME NEW VARIETIES OF RICE. 1 3 



are dark green streaked with light green, the sheath nodes Light 

 green. The auricles are persistent. The ligules are five-eighths 

 of an inch in length. The leaf blades are narrow, averaging three- 

 eighths of an inch in width. The panicles have an average length 

 of 8| inches, and each bears on an average 137 seeds. 



The seeds (PI. IV, A and B) average 7.4 millimeters in length and 

 3.7 millimeters in thickness. The glumes are pale yellow and have 

 smooth margins. The hull, which loosely incloses the kernel, is light 

 yellow and medium in thickness. Its surface has a burlaplike appear- 

 ance and is thinly covered with white hairs. These hairs are longer 

 and more conspicuous toward the apex and are usually prominent on 

 the veins. A light-yellow awn with a very short conical yellow tooth 

 at its base on each side is characteristic of the variety. The awn varies 

 in length from 10 to 26 millimeters, is deciduous, and sometimes not 

 present on all spikelets of the panicle. When the awn is absent, the 

 apex of the hull terminates in four conical yellow teeth. The two 

 that are prominent are located on the meson and are unequal in 

 length, the longer one lying dorsally. The other two are lateral and 

 rather short. 



The kernels (PI. IV, C and D) average in length 5.5 millimeters, in 

 width 2.1 millimeters, and in thickness 3.2 millimeters. Viewed later- 

 ally, their dorsal and ventral margins are equally convex, and their 

 distal end is broadly obtuse. The opaque area when present is small 

 and is located on or near the dorsal margin. 



This variety matures in approximately 137 days and has produced 

 an average acre yield of 2,727 pounds of paddy and 1,777 pounds of 

 straw. It may be grown on the poorer prairie lands of Louisiana and 

 Texas with more profit than may be obtained from Blue Rose, which 

 has a longer period of growth and requires richer soil for high pro- 

 duction. Wataribune rice should not be sown on very rich soil, for 

 under such conditions it shows a tendency to lodge. 



BLUE ROSE. 



The Blue Rose variety is the result of a selection made by Sol. 

 Wright, of Crowley, La., from an unknown variety which was found 

 by J. F. Shoemaker, also of Crowley, La., in 1907, in a field of a 

 Japanese rice that he was growing east of Jennings, La., near the 

 Mermentau River. Many plants of this unknown variety were cut 

 at maturity by Mr. Shoemaker and given by him to Mr. Wright, who 

 isolated a strain which he later offered for sale under the name Blue 

 Rose. 



The stout light-green culms of this variety are striped with dark 

 green and usually number seven to the plant. Their average height, 

 including the panicles, is 44 inches. The culm nodes are dark green ; 

 sheath nodes light green. The auricles are deciduous.. The ligules are 

 half an inch long. The leaf blades are broad, averaging five-eighths 

 of an inch in width. The panicles have an average length of 8-| inches, 

 and each bears, on an average. 144 seeds. 



The seeds (PL IV, E and F) average 8.7 millimeters in length and 

 3.4 millimeters in thickness. The glumes are pale yellow and have 

 smooth margins. The hull loosely incloses the kernel and is yellow 

 and thick. Its surface has a burlaplike appearance and is thinly 



