AUSTRALIAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 5 
Francisco, Calif. At the close of that exposition in 1916 samples of 
32 varieties were obtained by the Bureau of Plant Industry (C. L 
Nos. 5062 to 5069, New Zealand exhibit; C. I. Nos. 5117 to 5140, 
Australian exhibit). Other organizations also obtained samples of 
,^ these wheats. Several varieties were grown by a mining company at 
their experiment station near Stockton, Calif. The Bunyip and the 
Darts Imperial have been increased by them and to a small extent 
are being grown commercially. 
In August, 1917, the Bureau of Plant Industry received a fourth 
shipment from Mr. Valder containing seed of 10 varieties of wheat 
(C. I. Nos. 5978 to 5987; S. P. I. Nos. 45142 to 45151), grown in New 
South Wales, Australia. Prof. W. W. Mackie obtained samples of 
the Hard Federation and Clarendon from Australia while in Mexico, 
and upon his return to the United States in 1917 brought small 
quantities of seed of these varieties with him. In November, 1917, 
* an Australian variety called Aurora, (C. I. No. 6135; S. P. I. No. 45566) 
was obtained with other wheat samples from Paris, France. Finally, 
in December, 1918, samples of 3 varieties (C. I. Nos. 6219 to 6221; 
S. P. I. Nos. 46794 to 46796) were received from Mr. Edwin Ashby, 
Wittunga, Blackwood, South Australia, the last two having been 
bred and grown by Mr. F. Coleman, of Tuela, Saddleworth, South 
Australia. 
From 1900 to 1919, therefore, the Bureau of Plant Industry ob- 
tained 157 samples of wheat varieties from Australia either direct, 
through the California Agricultural Experiment Station, or from the 
exhibits of New Zealand and Australian wheats at the Panama- 
Pacific International Exposition. This collection contains a few 
-i samples which are not Australian varieties and also contains many 
duplications, but at least 92 distinct varieties (85 of which have 
names) of Australian origin have been obtained, and most of them 
have been grown in nursery and plat experiments at several experi- 
ment stations in the Pacific coast area. 
NURSERY EXPERIMENTS WITH AUSTRALIAN WHEATS. 
The yields obtained from Australian varieties of wheat grown in 
nursery experiments at the Sherman County Branch Station, Moro, 
Oreg., and at the Plant Introduction Station, Chico, Calif., are shown 
in Table I. The varieties are arranged in the order of their Cereal 
p Investigations numbers, which are in the order of their introduction. 
Several varieties are included from which yields were not obtained. 
These were either not sown or the seed was not viable. They are 
included in order to present a complete record of the wheats intro- 
duced. Brief descriptions are given, showing the class to which 
the variety belongs and the principal characters of the spike, glume, 
and kernel. 
