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3. SILVER MEDAL, SEAV. 
Growth vigorous and early: Straw yellow: Culms stocky, hollow, thick © 
walled, but falling to the ground from weight of panicles when near matur- 
ity: Panicles long bearded, glumes and awns fawn-colored, glabrous, very 
glaucous, compact, slightly tapering: Grain pale amber, large, long, plump: 
or slightly contracted, and excessively hard; on being thrashed does not 
readily separate from the flowering glume: A spring variety. 
Culm: average height 3 feet 8 inches, tallest plant 4 feet 
6 inches ; diameter 1-8 to 1-5 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves : per culm 4; length 6 1-2 to 14 inches, average 9 
1-2; width of upper leaf 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 9-16; lower 
1-8 to 7-16 inch, average 1-4. 
Panicle : average length 3 1-2+inch; thickness 1-2 to 9-16. 
inch, average 1-2; breadth 7-16 to 5-8 inch, average 9-16 ; 
spikelets per panicle average 21; grains per spikelet 2 to 4, 
average 3, often 4. 
This variety has been cultivated in Onondago Co., New 
York State, to some extent, but its growth was discon- 
tinued, the millers refusing to handle it on account of its 
hardness. That grown by the Station was from a gentle- 
man who had found it necessary to cease growing it, owing 
to the above reason. 
4, WHITE CRIMEAN, DEP’T AG’L. 
Culms long, of good size, solid, excepting to a very slight extent in the 
larger part between the nodes, but very weak and unable to support a fully 
matured panicle, always falling over when of full-size, and very glaucous: 
Panicles long bearded, white, both awns and glumes, glabrous, glaucous, 
compact yet not crowded, square, slightly tapering: Grain pale amber, very 
large, long, shrunken slightly: Thrashes hard from glume: A spring 
variety. 
Culm : average height 3 feet 1 inch, tallest plant 3 feet 7 
inches ; diameter 1-8 to 1-5 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 7 to 13 inches, average 10 ;, 
width of upper leaf 3-8 to 11-16 inch, average 1-2; lower 
leaf 1-8 to 7-16, average 5-16. 
Panicle : average length 3 1-2+inches; thickness 1-2 to. 
5-8 inch, average 5-8 ; breadth 1-2 to 3-4 inch, average 5-8 ; 
spikelets per panicle average 19; grains per spikelet 2 to 5, 
average 4. 
This variety was distributed in 1885 by the U. 8. Dep’t of 
Ag’l as a winter wheat, and was planted as such, but en- 
tirely winter-killed. It is stated by the department that 
this is an imported variety. 
