. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 97 red, short, hard, ovate, with truncate tips; germ midsized; crease wide, mid- deep; cheeks angular; brush midsized, midlong. Kitchener differs from Marquis in being taller and later and in having a broader spike, purple straw, and a slightly longer and more rectangular kernel. (Plate XX, B.) History.—This variety originated from a head selected in a field of Marquis by Seager Wheeler in 1911 at Maple Grove Farm, Rosthern, Saskatchewan. It was increased and tested for yield
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 97 red, short, hard, ovate, with truncate tips; germ midsized; crease wide, mid- deep; cheeks angular; brush midsized, midlong. Kitchener differs from Marquis in being taller and later and in having a broader spike, purple straw, and a slightly longer and more rectangular kernel. (Plate XX, B.) History.—This variety originated from a head selected in a field of Marquis by Seager Wheeler in 1911 at Maple Grove Farm, Rosthern, Saskatchewan. It was increased and tested for yield by Mr. Wheeler for a period of four or five years and then distributed (202). Distribution.—Grown at several experiment stations in the spring-wheat sec- tions of the United States and commercially in Canada. CLIMAX (JONES CLIMAX) . Description.—Plant winter habit, midseason to late, tall; stem white, mid- strong; spike awnless, linear-fusiform, lax, nodding; glumes glabrous, white, midlong to long, midwide; shoulders wanting to narrow, oblique; beaks wide, obtuse, 1 mm. long; apical awns few, 3 to 10 mm. long; kernels red, midlong to long, soft, elliptical to ovate; germ mid- sized ; crease midwide, middeep; cheeks usually rounded ; brush midsized, midlong. This variety is very distinct because of its long, lax, tapering, and nodding spike. Spikes, glumes, and kernels of this wheat are shown in Plate XYII, B. FlG- 36-—Outline map' of the ~t . rr,, . /,/-,,. / -r /-a • >. east-central United States, origin of Climax (Jones Climax) showing the distribution of is not definitely determined. It is very similar to Climax wheat in 1919. the Celebrated K. B, No. 2 variety, differing only in Estimated area, 16,800 having a more nodding spike. The latter wheat res' was distributed by the Knight & Bostwick Seed Co., Rochester, N. Y., who have given its history as follows: During the summer of 1898 we discovered growing in our field of Long Berry Clawson ...
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