EXPERIMENTS WITH MAEQUIS WHEAT. 5 
remembered that the Red Fife was the male parent of the Marquis and 
that it doubtless was selected for Fife characters. 
The Marquis is a beardless spring wheat, with white glabrous glumes 
and broad and short hard red kernels. In general it differs from the 
Fig. 1.— Heads and kernels of three varieties of hard spring wheat, natural size: 1, Marquis; 2, Glyndon; 
3, Haynes. 
true Fife varieties in its shorter straw, shorter spike, shorter glumes, 
and shorter, broader kernel. (Figs. 1 and 2.) 
The plants are of only medium height, ranging from 28 to 48 inches, 
according to season, They generally are 2 to 4 inches shorter than 
