

87 
spikelets aber panicle average 17; grains per spikelet 2 to 5 
average 3 
Prof. Blount writes that he secured this variety from 
North Carolina, in 1882. 
44, SASKATCHEWAN FIFE J. & S. 
Synonyms: Saskatchewan Spring, Hend.; Scotch F%fe, 
Sprag. : 
Culms very erect and stiff: Panicles beardless, white, glabrous, loose, 
tapering: Grains, dark amber, small, very short and plump: ” Thrashes hard 
from glume: A spring variety. 
Culm: average height 3 feet 2 inches, tallest plant 3 feet 
9 inches ; diameter 1-8 to 1-4 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 6 to 12 inches, average 9 ; 
width of upper leaf 5- 16 to 11-16 inch, average 1-2; lower 
1-8 to 3-8 inch, average 3-16. 
Panicle: average length 5 +t inches ; thickness 5-16 to 7-16 
inch, average 3-8; breadth 1-2 to 5-8 inch, average 9-16 ; 
spikelets per panicle average 20; grains per spikelet 2 2 to 4, 
average 3. 
This variety is principally grown in Dakota, Minnesota, 
and the Northwest, the original stock coming from Mani- 
toba, where it has been grown for 20 years or more under 
the name of Scotch Fife. 
45. SAUMUR, VIL. 
Synonym : Summer (English name). 
Culms erect, but not very stout: Panicles beardless, white, glabrous, 
slightly compact, tapering: Grain dark amber, medium to ‘large, short, stn 
shrunken: Thrashes from glume with difficulty : A spring variety. 
Culm : average height 3 feet, tallest plant 3 feet 7 inches; 
diameter 1-7 to 1-5 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves: per culm 4 ; - length 6 to 15 inches, average 11 
1-2; width of upper leaf 1-2 to 7-8 inch, average 11-16; 
lower 1-8 to 3- 8, average 1-4. 
Panicle : average length 4 1-4+inches; thickness 3-8 to 
1-2 inch, average 7-16; hreadth 3-8 to 5-8 inch, average 9-16; 
spikelets per panicle average 2 20 ; ppains ar spikelet 1 to 4, 
average 2, often none. 
A well known French wheat much cultivated in the 
vicinity of Paris. A description of this wheat as grown 
here, varies in some respects with the plant grown in 
France, where the climate is much better suited to its com- 
plete development. Vilmorin! describes this variety as 
follows : 
4Les Meilleurs Bles, 1880, p. 72. 
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