CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 99 



Synonyms. — Golden Bronze, Golden Chaff, Improved Amber, White Winter. 

 Golden Bronze is the name under which a strain of this variety was being grown 

 at the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Golden Chaff is simply a shortening of the name Dawson Golden Chaff. Im- 

 proved Amber is the name under which a sam- 

 ple of Dawson was obtained from the Wiscon- 

 sin station. White Winter is a local descrip- 

 tive name used for the variety by farmers. 



Description. — Honor apparently is identical 

 with Dawson in all morphological characters, 

 except for a slightly stronger stem. It is more 

 winter resistant and a better yielder. north-central United States, 



History. — Honor was originated by the plant- showing the distribution of 

 breeding department of the Cornell University Dawson wheat in 1919. Esti- 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, in coopera- mated area ' 125 ' 500 acre& 

 tion with the Office of Cereal Investigations, United States Department of Agri- 

 culture. During the experimental stages it was known as Cornell Selection 

 522-68. Concerning the variety, Dr. H. H. Love, who is in charge of the 

 cooperative experiments at Cornell has written u as follows : 



Honor was selected from Dawson's Golden Chaff and seems to be a typical 

 Golden Chaff. I think it is slightly more winter hardy than the commercial 

 variety and has somewhat stiffer straw. 



Distribution. — The selection was distributed from Cornell University to 

 selected farmers for several years previous to the fall of 1920, when it was 

 first offered for sale as Honor wheat by C. A. Rogers (160), of Bergen, N. Y. 



SCHONACHER. 



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

 spike awnless, oblong, middense, inclined to nodding; glumes glabrous, brown, 

 midlong, midwide; shoulders midwide, oblique to square; beaks wide, obtuse, 

 0.5 mm. long; apical awns several, 2 to 30 mm. long; kernels white, midlong, 

 semihard, ovate; germ midsized to large; crease midwide, middeep; cheeks 

 angular ; brush midsized, midlong. 



Schonacher has a harder kernel than Dawson, and the spike is more nodding. 



History. — The origin of this variety is undetermined. The variety was 

 obtained from the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, 

 N. Y., in 1917. 



Distribution. — Grown by the Cornell University Station. A red-kerneled 

 wheat was reported under this name from Juniata County, Pa. 



ARCADIAN (EARLY ARCADIAN). 



Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, short ; stem white, strong, stout ; 

 spike awnless, clavate, short, dense, erect; glumes glabrous, brown, midlong, 

 wide ; shoulders midwide, oblique to rounded ; beaks wide, obtuse, 1 mm. long ; 

 apical awns several, 3 to 10 mm. long; kernels white, usually short, usually 

 soft, broadly ovate; germ midsized; crease wide, shallow to middeep; cheeks 

 usually angular ; brush small, midlong. 



12 Correspondence of the Office of Cereal Investigations, dated Mar. 19, 1921. 



