170 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



History. — Pride of Genesee was originated by A. N. Jones, 28 of Newark, 

 Wayne County, N. Y., in 1893. Whether or not it is of hybrid origin is not 

 known. 



Distribution. — Grown in Monroe County, N. Y. 



VIEGINIA. 



Description. — Virginia is similar to Rural New Yorker No. 57, except that 

 the quality of the grain is better. 



History. — Virginia is the result of a cross between an unnamed wheat (C. I. 

 No. 1344) and Jones Fife, made by H. A. Miller, in 1905, who was then a 

 representative of the United States Department of Agriculture at the Maryland 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, College Park, Md., where the cross was made 

 (185, p. 20). 



Distribution. — The variety is grown in experiments in Virginia, West Vir- 

 ginia, Tennessee, and Arkansas, and small quantities have been distributed for 

 commercial growing. 



PBELTJDE. 



Description. — Plant spring habit, early, short ; stem usually white, sometimes 

 faintly purple on lower internodes, strong; spike awned, fusiform, middense, 

 erect ; glumes pubescent, yellowish, midlong, midwide, easily deciduous ; shoul- 

 ders narrow, oblique to square ; beaks 2 to 5 mm. long ; awns black, 2 to 5 cm. 

 long; kernels dark red, short, hard, ovate, truncate; germ midsized; crease 

 midwide, shallow to middeep, triangular; cheeks angular; brush small, short. 



Prelude is distinct by its early maturity and its black awns. It shatters badly 

 and therefore always should be harvested before it is entirely ripe. It usually 

 is a low-yielding variety, but is well adapted to northern latitudes, where its 

 earliness enables it to escape fall frosts. It also has shown to advantage in 

 experiments on the southern border of the spring-wheat sections of the Great 

 Plains area, where early maturity is an important factor. It is an excellent 

 milling and bread-making variety (PI. XL VIII, A). 



History. — Prelude was originated by Dr. C. E. Saunders, cerealist of the 

 Dominion Department of Agriculture, at the Central Experimental Farm, Ot- 

 tawa, Canada (167, p. 118). The parentage of Prelude is shown by Buller 

 (50, p. 186), as follows: 



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



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



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



Prelude. 



Prelude was first distributed in 1913. It was introduced into the United 

 States by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1915 for experimental 

 purposes. 



Distribution. — Prelude is grown at experiment stations in the northern 

 spring-wheat sections of the United States. It is grown commercially in Minne- 

 sota and Wisconsin under the name of Wisconsin Wonder. 



28 Printed stationery of Mr. A. N. Jones. 



