CLASSIFICATIOlsr OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 161 
and Pennsylvania. Eclipse is a wheat similar to Diehl-Mediterranean, except 
that sometimes it has a slightly elevated siioulder. This wheat was first ob- 
tained by the United States Department of Agriculture from T. W. ^Yood & 
Sons, seedsmen, of Richmond, Va., in 1899. Its previous history is undeter- 
mined. Eclipse was reported from Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. 
Hybrid Mediterranean is a name early used for Diehl-Mediterranean wheat and 
often is referred to in literature as a synonym of that .variety. 
Michigan Bronze is a name which was recognized as a synonym of Diehl- 
Mediterranean wheat by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station as early as 
1888. It apparently is a name under which Diehl-Mediterranean wheat was 
advertised and distributed by Thorburn & Co., seedsmen, of New York City, as 
early as 1889. The name, however, was recorded for a wheat by C. S. Plumb 
as early as 1877. It was reported from Michigan and Tennessee in 1919. 
Michigan Brown apparently is a name used by some growers of Michigan 
Bronze. 
Miller's -Choice apparently is identical with Diehl-Mediterranean. It has 
been grown by the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, but was 
not reported in the varietal survey. According to Prof. G. M. Garren, of North 
Carolina station, the wheat now called Miller's Choice was bought as seed 
wheat by B. B. Miller, of Salisbury, N. C, from some one in Maryland, who 
called it " Spade " wheat. It was tried on Mr. Miller's place and later on the 
Iredell Farm of the North Carolina station at Statesville, N. C, and did well 
in each place. As the name " Spade " was not familiar to these men, it was 
rechristened " Miller's Choice," in honor of Mr. Miller. 
Rattle Jack is the same as Diehl-Mediterranean and is the principal variety 
grown in Crawford County, Kans. It also is grown in Cherokee and Neosho 
Counties, Kans., and Osage County, Okla. It was also reported from Madison 
and Marion Counties, 111., but according to Leighty the wheat there grown as 
Rattle Jack is of Gipsy type. Its history is undetermined. Russian Amber is a 
name under which samples of wheat identical with Diehl-Mediterranean have 
been received from the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station. Its history 
is undetermined and it is not known to be commercially grown. Shepherd's 
Perfection grown in 14 counties in Michigan is for the most part Diehl-Mediter- 
ranean. One sample obtained from Ceresco, Calhoun County, proved to be 
Goens. Shepherd's Prolific is a name under which a sample identical with 
Diehl-Mediterranean was obtained from the Indiana Agricultural Experiment 
Station. It was reported from Jennings County, Ind., and Delaware and Rich- 
land Counties, Ohio. Spade is identical with Diehl-Mediterranean. The origin 
of the name Spade is undetermined. Wheat under that name was first obtained 
by the United States Department of Agriculture from Pennsylvania in 1903. It 
was reported from Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Penn- 
sylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. 
RUSSIAN. 
Description. — Plant winter habit, late, midtall ; stem white, strong; spike 
awned, fusiform, middense, inclined; glumes glabrous, brown, midlong, nar- 
row; shoulders wanting to narrow, elevated; beaks 2 to 10 mm. long; awns 
3 to 7 cm. long; sometimes black; kernels red, midlong, semihard, ovate to 
elliptical, acute ; germ small ; crease midwide, shallow to middeep ; cheeks 
rounded to angular ; brush midsized, midlong to long. 
Russian diifers from Diehl-Mediterranean principally in being later and 
shorter and in having narrower and darker colored glumes and, under some 
conditions, black awns. 
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