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Clawson wheat on the farm of H. S. Bonnell,! Junius, 
Seneca Co., N. Y., in 1877. This Mr. Bonnell planted the 
following year, and continued his planting until 1881, when 
he had about 10 acres. In 1881 Mr. W. L. Eastman, of 
Ovid, Seneca Co., obtained seed from Mr. Bonnell, and the 
following year secured Mr. B’s entire crop and negotiated 
with D. Landreth & Sons, of Philadelphia, for its dissemina- 
tion. In 1882, Landreth & Sons placed this variety upon 
the market, under the name it now bears. A careful com- 
parison of this and the so-called Martin’s Amber, both in 
the experimental plat and on the farm, in the field, has led 
me to declare them synonymous. 
39. MILLER’S GENESEE PROLIFIC, MILL. 
Culms short, unusually stiff, stout, and very erect, and the general form 
of the plant compact: Panicles beardless, white, glabrous, short, very com- 
pact, and much crowded at the tip, very blunt pointed, tapering towards 
the base: Grain medium light amber, small to medium, short, plump: 
“‘Thrashes very hard from glume. 
Culm: average height 2 feet 3 inches, tallest plant 2 feet 
10 inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-4 inch, average 1-5 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 3 3-4 to 10 1-2 inches, average 
7; width of upper leaf 5-16 to 5-8 8 inch, average 1-2; lower 
1-8 to 3-8 inch, average 1-4. 
Panicle: average length 2 1-4 + inches; the thickness 
gives an average variation from 3-8 at base to 1 inch at tip; 
breadth 1-2 to 5-8 inch, average 1-2; spikelets per panicle 
average 17; grains per spikelet 2 to 5, average 4. 
Discovered in a field of Arnold’s Gold Medal, by Mr. James 
Miller, Penn Yan, N. Y., in 1878. Not yet much introduced. 
40. NONPAREIL, SIB. 
Synonym: Fountain, Blount. 
Culms very erect and stiff, though small: Panicles beardless, white, 
glabrous, fairly compact, slightly tapering, small: Grain light amber, small 
to medium, long, badly shrunken: Thrashes very hard from glume. A 
spring variety, all fall plants being winter killed. 
Culm: average height 3 feet, tallest plant 3 feet 10 inches; 
diameter 1-8 to 1-6 inch, average 1-7. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 5 to 11 1-4 inches, average 8 1-2; 
width of upper leaf 3-8 to 5-8 inch, average 1-2; lower 1-8 to 
5-16 inch, average 3-16. 
Panicle: average length 4 1-2 — inches; thickness 3-8 to 
1-2 inch, average 7-16; breadth 7-16 to 5- S inch, average 1-2; 
spikelets per panicle average 19; grains per spikelet 2 2 to 4, 
average 2. | 
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1Rural New Yorker, January, 1884. 

