CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 



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red, short, hard, ovate, with truncate tips; germ midsized; crease wide, mid- 

 deep; cheeks angular; brush midsized, midlong. 



Kitchener differs from Marquis in being taller and later and in having a 

 broader spike, purple straw, and a slightly longer and more rectangular kernel. 

 (Plate XX, B.) 



History. — This variety originated from a head selected in a field of Marquis 

 by Seager Wheeler in 1911 at Maple Grove Farm, Rosthern, Saskatchewan. It 

 was increased and tested for yield by Mr. Wheeler for a period of four or five 

 years and then distributed (202). 



Distribution. — Grown at several experiment stations in the spring-wheat sec- 

 tions of the United States and commercially in Canada. 



CLIMAX (JONES CLIMAX) . 



Fig. 36. — Outline map of the 

 east-central United States, 

 showing the distribution of 

 Climax wheat in 1919. 

 Estimated area, 16,800 

 acres. 



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

 strong; spike awnless, linear-fusiform, lax, nodding; glumes glabrous, white 

 midlong to long, midwide ; shoulders wanting to 

 narrow, oblique ; beaks wide, obtuse, 1 mm. long ; 

 apical awns few, 3 to 10 mm. long; kernels red, 

 midlong to long, soft, elliptical to ovate ; germ mid- 

 sized ; crease midwide, middeep ; cheeks usually 

 rounded; brush midsized, midlong. 



This variety is very distinct because of its long, 

 lax, tapering, and nodding spike. Spikes, glumes, 

 and kernels of this wheat are shown in Plate 

 XVII, B. 



History. — The origin of Climax (Jones Climax) 

 is not definitely determined. It is very similar to 

 the Celebrated K. B. No. 2 variety, differing only in 

 having a more nodding spike. The latter wheat 

 was distributed by the Knight & Bostwick Seed Co., Rochester, N. Y., who 

 have given its history as follows: 



During the summer of 1898 we discovered growing in our field of Long Berry 

 Clawson ... a single head of wheat that showed qualities distinctly superior 

 to its celebrated parent. . . . We sowed it in our trial grounds . . . called it 

 our Celebrated K. B. No. 2 (122, p. 90). 



Its distribution dates from 1902, although it apparently did not become widely 

 grown. This or a very similar wheat evidently was rather recently named 

 Jones Climax and distributed by Everitt's O. K. Seed Store, Indianapolis, Ind., 

 and the commercial distribution of the variety was thus established. There 

 seems to be no evidence that A. N. Jones, of New York, who developed several 

 varieties of wheat, had anything to do with this variety. 



Distribution. — Grown as Jones Climax in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, 

 Missouri, North Carolina, and West Virginia, and under the names of synonyms 

 in Pennsylvania. The distribution is shown in Figure 36. 



Synonyms. — Celebrated K. B. No. 2, Grecian, K. B. No. 2, Pennsylvania 

 Standard, Wilson, and Wilson Special. As shown above, Celebrated K. B. No. 

 2 was possibly the original name. Most experiment stations grew and recorded 

 it simply as K. B. No. 2. Grecian is a name used for the variety in Butler 

 County, Pa., where it has been grown for about 10 years. Pennsylvania Stand- 

 ard is a name used for the variety in Schuyler County, Mo., where, according 

 to W. J. Ford, of Glenwood, it has been grown for about 25 years and now 

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