82 
++ Panicle white. 
31. CANADA WINTER CLUB, JAQ. 
Culms very stout, stiff, and erect, rising from a slightly decumbent base : 
Panicles beardless, white, glabrous, very compact and short, with spikelets 
crowded at the tip: blunt pointed, but tapering toward the base; very erect 
on the culm when ripe: Grain medium amber, short, plump: Thrashes hard’ 
from glume. 
Culm: average height 2 feet 6 inches; tallest plant 3 feet; 
diameter 1-8 to 1-4 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves : per culm 4; length 4 to 9 1-2 inches, average 7 ; 
width of upper leaf 3-8 to 5-8 inch, average 1-2; lower 1-8 to 
3-8 inch, average 1 4. 
Panicle: average length 3 + inches; thickness varies from 
an average of 3-8 inch at the base, to 3-4 and 1 inch at the 
tip, with an average at tip of 8-4 inch; breadth 1-2 to 3-4 
inch, average 5-8; spikelets per panicle average 21; grains 
per spikelet 3 to 6, average 5. 
The original plant was found growing by J. 5. Woodward, 
Esq., of Lockport, N. Y., in a field of wheat in 1882. Has 
not yet been placed on the market. 
32. CHAMPION AMBER, O. E. S. 
Spring growth vigorous, robust, erect: Straw yellow: Culms erect and 
stout: Panicles beardless, white, glabrous, rather loose, flattened, somewhat 
tapering: Grain dark amber, medium to large, long, shrunken: Thrashes 
hard from glume. ‘ 
Culm: average height 3 feet 6 inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-5 
inch, average 1-5. 
Leaves: perculm 4; length + 1-2 to 9 1-2 inches, average 
7; width of upper leaf 1-2 to 7-8 inch, average 5-8 ; lower, 
average 3-8 inch. 
Panicle ; average length 3 1-2+inches ; average thickness 
1-2 inch ; average breadth 5-8 inch ;_ spikelets per panicle 
16 to 22, average 17; Grains per spikelet, average 3; one 
thousand weigh 502 grains. 
33. CRYSTAL ROCK, ALEX. 
Culms very large, stiff and erect: Panicles beardless, white, glabrous, 
fairly compact, abruptly pointed: Grain light amber, very short, broad, 
shrunken: Thrashes very hard from glume: A spring variety. 
Culm: average height 3 feet, tallest plant 3 feet 8 1-2 
inches ; diameter 1-7 to 1-4 inch, average 1-5. 
Leaves: perculm 4; length 6 to 11 3-4 inches, average 9; 
width of upper leaf 1-2 to 13-16 inch, average 5-8; lower 
8-16 to 3 8 inch, average 1-4. i 
Panicle : average length 5 1-2+inches ; thickness 3-8 to 
1-2 inch, average 1-2 ; breadth 1-2 to 5-8 inch, average 9-16; 
‘spikelets per panicle average 23 ; grains per spikelet 2 to 4, 
-average 2. 
