. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CLASSIFICATION OP AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 73 wide; shoulders midwide to wide, square to elevated; beaks narrow, acute, to mm. long; apical awns several, 8 to 40 mm. long; kernels white, midlong to long, soft, ovate, distinctly humped; germ midsized; crease mid- wide, middeep to deep, pitted; cheeks rounded; brush large, midlong to long. This variety is quite similar to Surprise, but differs principally in being earlier and shorter and in having more numerous and longer apical awns and larger and humped kernel
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CLASSIFICATION OP AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 73 wide; shoulders midwide to wide, square to elevated; beaks narrow, acute, to mm. long; apical awns several, 8 to 40 mm. long; kernels white, midlong to long, soft, ovate, distinctly humped; germ midsized; crease mid- wide, middeep to deep, pitted; cheeks rounded; brush large, midlong to long. This variety is quite similar to Surprise, but differs principally in being earlier and shorter and in having more numerous and longer apical awns and larger and humped kernels. Spikes, glumes, and kernels of this wheat are shown in Plate XIII, B. History.—Hugh A. Crawford, Napa, Calif., obtained this variety from a neighbor who said he had noticed an unusual stool of wheat near an un- frequented road and who cut it when ripe and started experimenting with it. Mr. Crawford bought the original seed in 1913 and increased it until in 1917 he had 360 acres growing at Winters, Calif. He named it Pilcraw Enormous and distributed it. Distribution.—Grown in Napa and Sacramento Counties, Calif. RICE. Description.—Plant winter habit, early, midtall; stem white, midstrong; spike awnless, fusiform, dense, erect; glumes glabrous, white, short, midwide; shoulders midwide to wide, oblique to square; beaks nearly wanting; apical awns wanting to few, 1 to 10 mm. long; kernels pale red, short to midlong, soft, ovate; germ small to midsized; crease midwide, shal- low to middeep; cheeks angular; brush midsized, midlong. This variety is very similar to Zimmerman, but differs principally in having a more fusiform al- though denser spike, wider shoulder, and longer beaks and apical awns. The kernels also are harder. PIG. 04. Outline map of a Spikes, glumes, and kernels of Rice wheat are shown portion of the east-central in Plate XIV, A. United Statea, showing the History.—The origin of Rice wheat is undeter- :-;090o acres. tne United States. In 1883 it was first r
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