170 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 
History. — Pride of Genesee was originated by A. N. Jones,^® of Newark, 
Wayne County, N. Y., in 1893. Whether or not it is of hybrid origin is not 
known. 
Distrihution. — Grown in Monroe County, N. Y. 
VIEGINIA. 
Description. — Virginia is similar to Rural New Yorker No. 57, except that 
the quality of the grain is better. 
History. — Virginia is the result of a cross between an unnamed wheat (C. I. 
No. 1344) and Jones Fife, made by H. A. Miller, in 1905, who was then a 
representative of the United States Department of Agriculture at the Maryland 
Agricultural Experiment Station, College Park, Md., where the cross was made 
{185, p. 20). 
Distrihution. — The variety is grown in experiments in Virginia, West Vir- 
ginia, Tennessee, and Arkansas, and small quantities have been distributed, for 
commercial growing. 
PEELUDE. 
Description. — Plant spring habit, early, short ; stem usually white, sometimes 
faintly purple on lower internodes, strong; spike awned, fusiform, middense, 
erect ; glumes pubescent, yellowish, midlong, midwide, easily deciduous ; shoul- 
ders narrow, oblique to square ; beaks 2 to 5 mm. long ; awns black, 2 to 5 cm, 
long; kernels dark red, short, hard, ovate, truncate; germ midsized; crease 
midwide, shallow to middeep, triangular; cheeks angular; binish small, short. 
Prelude is distinct by its early maturity and its black awns. It shatters b-idly 
and therefore always should be harvested before it is entirely ripe. It usually 
is a low-yielding variety, but is well adapted to northern latitudes, where its 
earliness enables it to escape fall frosts. It also has shown to advantage in 
experiments on the southern border of the spring-wheat sections of the Great 
Plains area, where early maturity is an important factor. It is an excellent 
milling and bread-making variety (PI. XLVIII, A). 
History. — Prelude was originated by Dr. C. E. Saunders, cerealist of the 
Dominion Department of Agriculture, at the Central Experimental Farm, Ot- 
tawa, Canada (i67, p. 118). The parentage of Prelude is shown by BuUer 
{50, p. 186), as follows: 
Ladoga (f) X White Fife (m) A. P. Saunders, 1888 
Alpha (f) X Hard Red Calcutta (m)....A. P. Saundei^s, 1892 
Fraser (m) X (downy) Gehun (f). .C. E. Saunders, 1903 
Prelude. 
Prelude was first distributed in 1913. It was introduced into the United 
States by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1915 for experimental 
purposes. 
Distribution. — Prelude is grown at experiment stations in the northern 
spring-wheat sections of the United States. It is grown commercially in Minne- 
sota and Wisconsin under the name of Wisconsin Wonder. 
Printed stationery of Mr. A. N. Jones. 
