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Distrihution. — Grown as Leap's Prolific in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, 
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New 
York, Nortli Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, 
and West Virginia. The distribution is shown in Figure 25. 
Synonyms. — Hastings Prolific, Woods Prolific, and Woolf. Hastings Pro- 
lific is a name used for Leap wheat in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. 
Woods Prolific is used for the variety in Tennessee and Virginia. These names 
probably are derived from the names of the seed firms selling it. Woolf is 
a name used for the Leap variety in Muhlenberg County, Ky. 
ONTAEIO WONDEB. 
Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, midtall to tall; stem white, 
midstrong; spike awnless, fusiform, middense, nodding; glumes glabrous, 
white, midlong, narrow; shoulders wanting to narrow, oblique to rounded; 
beaks wide, obtuse, 1.0 mm. long ; apical awns few, 3 to 10 mm. long ; kernels 
pale red, midlong, soft, ovate; germ small to midsized; crease midwide, mid- 
deep ; cheeks angular to rounded ; brush midsized, midlong. 
History. — ^This is a Canadian variety of undetermined origin. The variety 
was grown in the L^'nited States by the 
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station as 
early as 1888 {113, p. 28). 
Distribution. — So far as known this 
variety is grown only experimentally in the 
United States, although it is commercially 
grown in Ontario. 
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ZIMMERMAN. 
Description. — Plant winter habit, early, 
midtall ; stem white, strong ; spikes awn- 
less, oblong-fusiform, middense. erect to in- 
FiG. 25.— Outline map of a portion of clined ; glumes glabrous, white, short, mid- 
tlie eastern United States, showing wide; shoulders midwide, oblique to 
tlie distribution of Leap wheat in gq^are ; beaks wide, obtuse, 0.5 mm. long; 
1919. Estimated area, 513,100 acres. . , 4. o ^ -.a ^ i ^ 
apical awns few, 3 to 10 mm. long ; kernels 
pale red, usually short, soft, ovate; germ small to midsized; crease midwide, 
middeep; cheeks rounded; brush small, midlong. 
This variety is quite similar to Fultz, but differs principally in being slightly 
earlier and having white straw and a smaller kernel. 
History. — Zimmerman is reported to have been originated about 1837 near 
Frederick, Md., by Henry Zimmerman, who noticed three heads of singular 
appearance near the edge of one of his wheat fields. They w^ere saved, the 
seed' sown and increased, and at the end of the sixth year he had over 60 
bushels; in the seventh year the wheat was sold to the public (118). The 
kernel is described* as " of a rich yellow." This might indicate that it was 
a white-kerneled wheat. From 1847 to 1850 the name " Zimmerman " was ap- 
plied in literature to both a white and a red wheat. References to red-kerneled 
Zimmerman wheat in the fifties show it was quite widely grown in Maryland, 
Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and by the early nineties it was an important 
wheat in eastern Kansas, v/here it is still grown. 
DiatriWtion.—GvovfJi sparingly in eastern Kansas and in Missouri. 
