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Title: American wheat culturist..
Identifier: americanwheatcul00todd_0 (find matches)
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Todd, Sereno E. [from old catalog]
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THE WHEAT CULTTIRIST. 101 a pale greenish-blue. There are from eight to twelve breasts on each side, with four grains in a breast." Black Six-eowed Aotdkiolo Wheat. The ear of wheat here shown represents a mongrel, or hybrid variety of wheat, as may be readily perceived by the rough appearance of the glumes, the irregularity of the rows of kernels, and the destitution of awns at certain parts of the head. This variety has not been introduced sufficiently to warrant a recommendation. I simply give it a place to show the difference between a pure and well-established variety and a mongrel. This Black Six-rowed Andriolo Wheat is the product of a bald and bearded variety, the kernels of one of which were impregnated with the pollen of the other variety. Such va- rieties should always be discarded for seed, as the yield will always be less satisfactory than when good seed of a pure variety is selected and sowed from year to year.
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Fig. 21.—Black Andriolo wheat.

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