CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT’ VARIETIES. 97 
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—tThis 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). 
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 
MVIL PB. Fig. 86.—Outline map: of the 
oe sete - x east-central United States, 
History.—tThe origin of Climax (Jones Climax) showing the distribution of 
is not definitely determined. It is very similar to Climax wheat in 1919. 
the Celebrated K. B. No. 2 variety, differing only in Estimated area, 16,800 
having a more nodding spike. The latter wheat Peta 
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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