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No. 2. Kinver’s Chevalier (Bliss). Average height three feet six 
inches. Oulm very erect and strong. Leaves linear, often exceed 
ing twelve inches in length, but not averaging one-half an inch in 
width. Panicles average five inches long, nodding, narrower than 
Chevalier; berry of medium size, with awn frequently exceeding 
ten inches in length. Stools very abundantly. Late in the season 
is very susceptible to red-rust, so that at time of harvesting the 
straw is quite weak. Not as vigorous as Chevalier. An English 
variety. 
No. 3. Two-Rowed (Bliss). Average height three feet. ~Culm 
erect and stout. Leaves linear, attaining a length of ten inches, not 
averaging one-half an inch in width. Foliage very green and 
healthy, although culms rather susceptible to rust. Culms are more 
glaucous late in the season than any other of our varieties. Panicles 
average four and one-half inches long; nodding; berry of medium 
size, and with awn attaining a length of over nine inches. | 
Species I]. Hordeum vulgare, L. Spikelets three at each joint 
of rachis, containing perfect flowers. Flowering glume long awned. 
t+ Seeds white, and adherent to the palet and glume; pani- 
cle six-rowed. 
No. 4. Adams’s Heavy (Sibley). Average height two feet six 
inches.. Culm usually erect, but not stout. Leaves often exceeding 
ten inches long, and attaining three-fourths of an inch wide; lance- 
linear; base of leaf-blade white. Panicles average slightly over 
three inches in length, droop somewhat, and berry with awn attains 
a length of seven inches or more; berry of medium size. Stools 
well. This variety is more subject to disease than any other barley 
tested at the Station. 
No. 5. Four-Rowed (Bliss). Average height three feet. Culm 
both erect and decumbent, medium stout. Leaves lance-linear, taper 
pointed, attaining a length of eleven inches, and over one-half an 
inch in width; base of leaf-blade white. Panicles average three 
and one-half inches long, usually drooping; berry of medium size, 
and with awn reaching six inches in length. Stools fairly well. 
No. 6. Manshury. Average height two feet nine inches. Culm 
erect as a rule, fairly stout. Leaves lance-linear, taper pointed, 
averaging nine inches long, and often exceeding three-fourths of an 
inch wide; base of blade white. Panicles average four inches long, 
or with awns six inches; drooping or upright; berry of fair size. 
Stools well. Retains its erect habit of growth to harvesting. This 
variety was first brought to this country* from Germany in 1861 by 
Dr. Hermann Grunow, of Mifflin, Wisconsin. It is said to have 
been originally obtained by a scientific traveler in the mountainous 
parts of eastern Asia (Mandschurey), about 1859, and was obtained 
_ by Dr. Grunow from Ferdinand Duehlke, of Erfurt, at present di- 
rector of the Agricultural School at Potsdam, and gardener to the 
Emperor at Sans Souci. 
* First Annual Report of the Wis. Ag. Experiment Station, page 18. 
