158 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
This variety is distinct in having a clavate spike and hard white kernels. 
A spike, glumes, and kernels of this variety are shown in Plate XLIII, B. 
History.—Genesee Giant (Early Genesee Giant) was first distributed by § 
A. N. Jones, of Newark, Wayne County, N. Y., the originator, in 1893. It was 
advertised by Peter Henderson & Co., seedsmen, of New York, in 1894, and de- j 
scribed elaborately and recommended highly by them. It is the result of a i. 
composite cross which has been recorded by Carleton (38, p. 71), as follows: 
Mediterranean © © Fultz. 
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Russian Velvet O © No. 87. 
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Lancaster C) © Winter Fife. 
Hybrid e © Iron Straw. 
Early White Leader ~ © Hybrid. 
Hybrid 4 © Winter Fife. 
Golden Cross Jr. 5 © Hybrid. 
Hybrid 5 © Iron Straw. 
Early Genesee Giant. 
Distribution —Grown in Davis and Weber Counties, Utah, and experimentally | 
in the eastern United States. 
Synonyms. Farmers Trust, Giant Squarehead, Pedigree Giant, Genesee, J] 
Golden Cross. 
Farmers Trust is a local name which has recently become used for Genesee , 
Giant in Idaho, Montana, and Nebraska. Giant Squarehead is a wheat similar | 
to Genesee Giant obtained from the Cornell University Agricultural Experi: | 
ment Station. Pedigree Giant is a wheat similar to Genesee Giant obtained | 
from the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station in 1912. A wheat was dis: 
tributed by A. N. Jones as Pedigree Genesee Giant in 1894, the year following 
the distribution of Genesee Giant. This doubtless accgunts for this name. Tt | 
is possible that the original Genesee Giant was somewhat mixed and a pure | 
strain was distributed later. Genesee is a shortened name used by growers in 
Utah. Golden Cross is the name under which a sample of wheat similar to | 
Genesee Giant was obtained from the Indiana station through the Cornell } 
University Agricultural Experiment Station in 1912. This name is listed for a 
wheat originated by A. N. Jones in 1886, heading the list of varieties which he 
originated, which appears on his stationery. The name Golden Cross, there- 
fore, probably is wrongly applied to this wheat. 
CANADIAN RED. 
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Description—Plant spring habit, early, short; stem white, slender, weak; |i 
spike awned, oblong-fusiform, middense, inclined; glumes glabrous, brown, 
long, midwide; shoulders midwide, oblique to elevated ; beaks 2 to 20 mm. long; | 
awnhs 2 to 6 cm. long; kernels white. midlong, semihard to hard, ovate, humped, 
curved; germ midsized; crease middeep, shallow to middeep; cheeks rounded ; ) 
brush small, short. 
History—The origin of Canadian Red is undetermined. It was obtained in 
July, 1919, from F. G. Stokes, of Keiseyville, Calif., who reported that it con-— 
stituted 15 per cent of the wheat grown in the vicinity of Kelseyville, Lake 
County, Calif. 
