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9. SEIZURE, SIB. - 
Early foliage dark green, sparse to profuse: Stools fairly: Culms stout 
and erect: Sheaths tightly clasping: Panicles open, large, long: Grain 
whitish-yellow, medium size, long, tapering, fairly plump, usually awned, 
rarely hairy capped at base: Thrashes easily. 
Culm: average height 3 feet 6 inches: diameter 1-8 to 
3-10 inch. 
Leaves : per culm 4 to 6, average 5; length of top leaf 3 
1-2 to 10 1-2 inches, average 7; second leaf attains 17 1-2: 
inches, average 12; width of upper leaf 7-16 to 1 inch, 
average 11-16 ; lower 3-16 to 1-2 inch, average 5-16. 
Panicle: average length 8 inches ; peduncles 7 to 9, aver- 
age 8; grains per spikelet 2. 
10. SURPRISE, LAND. 
Early foliage dark green, medium to coarse, profuse: Stools medium: 
Culms of good size, fairly stout, but often inclined to one side; upper node 
is noticeably hairy on the upper and lower sides, passing around the culm: 
Sheaths closely clasping: Panicles open, delicate, large: Grains medium to 
large, long, tapering, fairly plump, often awned: Thrashes medium well: 
Late foliage light green. 
Culm : average height 4 feet 4 inches, tallest plant 5 feet 
2 inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-4 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves: per culm average 5; average length of top leaf 
9 inches; second leaf attains 18 1-4 inches, average 13; 
width of upper leaf 3-8 to 1 inch, average 11-16 ; lower 3-16 
to 5-8 inch, average 1-4. 
Panicle: average length 13 inches ; peduncles average 7; 
average grains per spikelet 2. 
C. H. Van Olinda, of Sandwich, DeKalb Co., Ill., intro- 
duced, in the vicinity of 1865, an oat under this name’. 
The plant from which this variety originated came up 
among many oats, the seed of which was received from the 
U. S. Patent office. This variety has had a wide distribu- 
tion. 
11. VIRGINIA WINTER, LAND. 
Synonyms: Grazing, John.; White Winter, J. &5. 
Early foliage light green, grassy, quite profuse, very decumbent: Stools 
very profuse: Culms small, slender, soft, very weak and always recline before 
maturity: Sheaths very closely clasping and quite wooly on edges: Panicles 
open, delicate and slender, not very heavily seeded: Grains small, long, 
slender, tapering, very pale whitish-yellow, frequently awned, base of grain 
rarely hairy capped: A winter oat. 
Culm : average height 4 feet 3 inches, tallest plant 5 feet; 
diameter 1-8 to 1-5 inch, average 1-7. 
1Moore’s Rural New Yorker, Vol. XXI, pp. 298-386-378. 
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