160 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
obtained by the writers from Mr. Stewart and from the Federal Board of 
Review, Chicago, 111., and the wheat was found not to be Kubanka and was 
also determined to be more nearly a common than a durum wheat. As the 
variety had been grown in Sevier County, Utah, for 25 years or more, it was 
named Sevier by Stewart (187, p. 25), of the Utah station. 
Distribution. — Grown in Utah. 
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DIEHL-MEDITEREANEAN. 
Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, midtall to tall; stem white, 
midstrong; spike awned, fusiform, middense, inclined to nodding; glumes gla- 
brous, brown, midlong, midwide; shoulders midwide, rounded to oblique to 
elevated ; beaks 1 to 8 mm. long ; awns 3 to 7 cm. long ; kernels pale red, mid- 
long, soft, ovate to elliptical ; germ midsized ; crease narrow to midwide, mid- 
deep ; cheeks usually rounded ; brush mid- 
sized, midlong to long. 
Diehl-Mediterranean differs from Med- 
iterranean principally in having white 
straw and a smaller kernel. A spike, 
glumes, and kernels of Diehl-Mediterranean 
wheat are shown in Plate XLV, A. 
History. — The Diehl-Mediterranean was 
advertised and distributed by Peter Hen- 
derson & Co., seedsmen, of New York City, 
for the first time in 1884, and is said by 
them to have originated by fertilizing the 
Red Mediterranean with the pollen of the 
Diehl (110, 1884). The same history is 
given in an article in the Rural New Yorker 
of the same year, in which it is also said 
that the variety originated in Monroe 
County, N. Y., but by whom was not noted 
(18). The Diehl wheat was a white-kerneled wheat with a clavate spike, prob- 
ably similar to Seneca Chief. During the late eighties the Diehl-Mediterranean 
was distributed widely by the United States Department of Agriculture in the 
congressional seed distribution. 
DistriMition. — Grown as Diehl-Mediterranean in Michigan, New York, and 
Pennsylvania, and under the name of synonyms in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, 
Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey. North Carolina, Ohio, 
Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. This distribution is shown 
in Figure 63. 
Synonyms. — Auburn, Big Four, Big Ten, Blue Ridge, Eclipse, Hybrid Mediter- 
ranean, Michigan Bronze, Michigan Brown, Miller's Choice, Rattle Jack, Russian 
Amber, Shepherd's Perfection. Shepherd's Prolific, and Spade. 
Auburn is the name under which a wheat identical with Diehl-INIediterranean 
was obtained from the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station in 1917. It is 
not known to be commercially grown. Big Four, which also was found to be 
identical with Diehl-Mediterranean, was obtained from A. J. Hagman, of 
Hjiwesville, Hancock County, Ky., who stated that it had been grown for eight 
years in that vicinity, where it constitutes 33 per cent of the wheat acreage. 
It also is grown in Cass County, Ind. Big Ten also is Diehl-INIediterranean, 
as grown in Ripley County, Ind., and Henderson County, Ky. Blue Ridge is a 
name under which samples of wheat similar to Diehl-Mediterranean have been 
obtained from the Kentucky and Virginia stations. Its further history is unde- 
termined. Blue Ridge was reported in 1919 from North Carolina, New Jersey, 
Fig. 63.— Outline map of a portion 
of the United States, showing the 
distribution of Diehl-Mediterranean 
wheat in 1919. Estimated area, 
114,700 acres. 
