PETER HENDERSON 6c CO., NEW YORK- 



Two Grand 

 ^ WINTER 

 WHEATS 



RURAL NEW YORKER 



Bearded 



AND, 



Beardless. 



THESE are both the result of upwards of twenty years' thoroughly scientific crossing and careful selection at 

 the hands of the late Mr. E. S. Carman, the well-known editor of the Rural Neiv Yorker, and raiser of many 

 of the most valuable agricultural introductions of recent years. These two varieties have been selected 

 from hundreds of crosses and varieties as superior in all desirable qualities. They have now been grown in most 



wheat-growing sections, and most flattering testimony has been 

 \\ \\ I fl I received by us regarding their merits. 



"Bearded" Rural New Yorker 



(.Number 57) 



has heavily-bearded heads which are beautifully symmetrical, being 

 pointed at the tip, broad in the middle, and tapering towards the stem. 

 The straw is unusually tall and strong and stools freely, frequently 

 having 35 to 40 stalks from a single grain. The heads are com- 

 pact, averaging three kernels to a spikelet or "breast," and ten breasts 

 to a side. The kernels are of medium size and of an attractive color, 

 between the so-called "red" and amber, possessing the requisite 

 degree of hardness for the production of the finest grade of flour, and 

 is much sought after by millers. The chaff is clear white, with a trace 

 of velvet sufficient to make it difficult for the green fly to attack it, and 

 the headsdonotmildewasthefullvelvetchaffvarietiesare liable todo. 

 (See cut.) 75c. per peck, $2.25 per bushel ; 10-bushel lots, $2.00 per bushel. 



"Beardless" Rural New yorker 



(Number 6) 



This beardless variety is a hybrid between Eye and Armstrong 

 Wheat, though all traces of Eye have disappeared and it now appears 

 a handsome, beardless Wheat. It succeeds and produces heavy 

 crops on poor, thin land, where "Wheat could not be successfully 

 or profitably grown, and it also has extreme hardiness to recom- 

 mend it. When first raised, some years ago, the top of the culms 

 was downy with Eye culms. This characteristic could not be fixed, 

 so that for this variety the culms having no down were alone selected. 

 The gold-colored straw is very thick and strong, easily supporting 

 the heavy grain without breaking. The large amber kernels are 

 placed four to a breast, eight breasts to a side, with long symmetrical 

 heads having a brown chaff. (See cut ) One of our growers says : 



"It stools as strong as any wheat I ever saw. It had a vigorous, healthy growth 

 all the season, and stood well without lodging. It is very hardy." 



75c. per peck, $2.25 per bushel ; 10-bushel lots, $2.00 per bushel. 



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 Rural New Yorker (No. 6). 



Bearded 



Rural New Yorker 



(No. 57). 



HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR SEEDS are procurable only from us direct-we do not supply through Dealers. 



