. Classification of American wheat varieties. Wheat; Wheat. CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 155 SILVERSHEAF (JONES SILVER SHEAF LONGBERRY RED). Description.—Plant winter habit, midseason, tall; stem usually white, mid- strong, coarse; spike awned, fusiform, lax, inclined; glumes glabrous, white, long, midwide, easily deciduous; shoulders midwide, usually elevated; beaks 2 to 30 mm. long; awns 3 to 10 cm. long; kernels pale red, long, soft, ellip- tical; germ small; crease midwide, shallow to middeep; cheeks rounded; brush midsized, midlong. The variety as grown contains mixtures of
. Classification of American wheat varieties. Wheat; Wheat. CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 155 SILVERSHEAF (JONES SILVER SHEAF LONGBERRY RED). Description.—Plant winter habit, midseason, tall; stem usually white, mid- strong, coarse; spike awned, fusiform, lax, inclined; glumes glabrous, white, long, midwide, easily deciduous; shoulders midwide, usually elevated; beaks 2 to 30 mm. long; awns 3 to 10 cm. long; kernels pale red, long, soft, ellip- tical; germ small; crease midwide, shallow to middeep; cheeks rounded; brush midsized, midlong. The variety as grown contains mixtures of purple straw. Silversheaf is distinct in having dark coffee-colored stripes on the glumes. A spike, glumes, and kernels of Silversheaf wheat are shown in Plate XLIII, A. History.—This variety was originated by A. N. Jones (128), Le Roy (for- merly of Newark, N. Y.), Genesee County, N. Y., in 1903. Concerning it he has written the following: I offer this season for the first time the finest Longberry Red wheat ever known in this country. . This wonder in the wheat line originated from a cross between my No. 8, or better known as American Bronze, and the cross- breed from a cross between Lancaster and Seedling No. 91, Longberry. He described the wheat as follows: Straw of a light yellow color, medium tall, thick walled and strong; head long, wide, and full, which as they ripen has a drooping habit. Chaff white, thin, with a silvery glisten in the sun; grain large, dark, and flinty, nearly as long as rye. This wheat was advertised and distributed by Peter Henderson & Co. (110), seedsmen, of New York, as early as 1903. , Distribution.—Grown in New York and South Caro- lina, and under the names of synonyms in Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. (Fig. 62.) Synonyms.—Australian, Clipperd's Bearded, Coffee, FlG 62.—Outline map and Davis. Of a portion of the Australian is the name under which a sample of Silver- easterntJnited States, sheaf was obta
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