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Table II .—Varieties of winter wheat showing no infection by the rosette disease in experi¬ 
ments conducted in the crop year IQ2I-22 , at Granite City , III., and Wanatah, Ind ., 
arranged according to classes, with head characters for each —Continued 
Variety. 
Selections from hybrids and varieties—Continued 
Genesee Giant x Mealy, row 59 in 1919. 
Genesee Giant x Fultz, rows 62 and 66 in 1919. . . 
Genesee Giant x Fultz, rows 63 to 65, and 72 in 
1919. 
Genesee Giant x Fultz, row 68 in 1919. 
Genesee Giant x Fultzo-Mediterranean, rows 74, 
76, and 78 in 1919. 
Genesee Giant x Fultzo-Mediterranean, rows 77 
and 79 in 1919. 
Genesee Giant x Fultzo-Mediterranean, row 93 in 
1919. 
Pennsylvania 44 x Fulcaster &. 
Spelt x Turkey, row 92 in 1919.. 
Turkey x Dale, row 91 in 1919. 
Turkish Amber x Dale, row 2 in 1919. 
Turkish Amber x Dale, row 4 in 1919. 
Selection, row 524 in 1921. 
Selection. 
Selection, 13858. 
Selection0 (common). 
Selection, row 393 in 1918. 
Selection, 131058. 
Selection, 131218. 
C. I. number of source. 
Head 
charac¬ 
ters. 
e 
ARV. 
e 
BRG. 
e 
BWG. 
e 
ARG. 
e 
BWG. 
e 
ARG. 
e 
AWG. 
Ind. Sta. 
BWG. 
e 
AWG. 
e 
BWG. 
e 
BRG. 
e 
BWG. 
From 5661 e . 
AWG. 
From 4131 «. 
AWG. 
From 1442 t . 
BWG. 
From 1593 «. 
BRG. 
From 3628 «. 
BWG. 
From commercial 
AWG. 
seed. « 
BWV. 
& Tested at Wanatah, Ind., only. 
e From wheat breeding nursery of C. E. Leighty, Arlington Experiment Farm, Rosslyn, Va. 
9 White kernels. 
In addition to the resistant varieties listed in Table II, two others 
should be mentioned, namely, Shepherd and a resistant selection from 
Harvest Queen. In 1922, in connection with investigations on flag smut 
conducted by W. H. Tisdale, G. H. Dungan, and C. E. Leighty, 7 an 
increase plat of Shepherd (C. I. No. 6163) was grown on rosette- 
infested land near Granite City, Ill. In this plat no rosette developed 
during 1922, indicating that Shepherd is immune from the rosette dis¬ 
ease. This is of especial importance, as this variety has been shown by 
Tisdale, Dungan, and Leighty to be immune from flag smut during the 
three years tested. This variety is awnless, with red glabrous chaff, and 
has soft red kernels. It yielded well near Granite City in 1922. 
Shepherd originated from a head selection made in 1912 at Cornell 
University by one of the authors (Leighty) from plants grown from seed 
obtained from the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station. It was 
grown in the crop year 1912-13 at Arlington Experiment Farm, near 
Rosslyn, Va., where it seemed promising and was increased. 
A resistant selection of Harvest Queen (the so-called Salzer’s Prizetaker) 
has been developed by H. H. McKinney. It was obtained by selecting, 
in 1919, a number of heads of this variety from plants that had developed 
normally on badly disease-infested land near Granite City. This strain 
i Tisdale, W. H., Dungan, G. H., and Leighty, C. E. flag smut of wheat, with special reference 
to varietal resistance. Ill. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 242, p. 511-538, 3 fig. 1923. Literature cited, p. 538. 
-flag smut of wheat. U. S. Dept. Agr. Circ. 273, 6 p., 2 pi. 1923. 
