108 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
it has been grown for five to eight years to a very limited extent, both as a 
winter and a spring wheat in Ravalli County, Mont. Carleton stated that 
Odessa could be grown as either a winter or a spring wheat. Most samples 
grown by the writers showed the winter habit, but as some Strains are heterozy- 
gous for winter and spring habit a portion of the crop from the bulk variety 
would produce seed from spring sowing. 
RUDDY. 
Description.—Plant winter habit, late, tall; stem glaucous, white, strong; 
spike awnless, oblong, middense, erect to inclined ; glumes giabrous, light brown, 
short, wide; shoulders wide, oblique to square; beaks wide, obtuse, 0.5 to 1 mm. 
long; apical awns few, 2 to 8 mm. long; kernels red, midlong, soft, oval; germ 
midsized; crease midwide, middeep; cheeks angular; brush midsized, long. 
This is a high-yielding variety, but its milling quality is poor. 
History—Ruddy was originated by hybridization at the Washington Agricul-_ 
tural Experiment Station, Pullman, Wash. It has Jones Fife, Little Club, and | 
Fic. 40.—Ouiline map of the northwestern United States, showing 
the distribution of Odessa wheat in 1919. Estimated area, 54,200 
acres. 
Turkey in its parentage and is a selection from the same cross from which | 
Triplet was obtained. Ruddy was grown first as a pure line in 1910 and was. 
named and distributed to a few farmers in the fall of 1919. 
Distribution—Grown experimentally in Washington. 
RUPERT (RUPERT’S GIANT). 
Description.—Plant winter habit, midseason, midtali; stem white, midstrong ; 
spike awnless, linear-obling to subclavate, middense, nodding; glumes glabrous, 
brown, midlong, wide; shoulders wanting to narrow to midwide, oblique; beaks. 
wide, obtuse, 1.0 long; apical awns several, 2 to 20 mm. long; kernels red, 
midlong, soft, ovate to elliptical; germ small to midsized ; crease wide, middeep 
to deep; cheeks usually rounded; brush midsized, midlong. 
Rupert differs from Red Wave in having an oblong spike, which sometimes is: 
subclavate. Spikes, glumes, and kernels of this wheat are shown in Plate 
XXVII, A. 
History.—The origin of this variety is not definitely known. Apparently it 
was first grown under the name Woods, concerning which R. Crouch, of Mor- 
ristown, Tenn., wrote the Office of Cereal Investigations, as follows: 
Mr. William Woods, of Talbott, Tenn., many years ago noticed an extra head 
of wheat in his field, and from this head of wheat Woods wheat is largely raised 
in this (Hamblen) and adjoining counties. 
