PETER HENDERSON & CO.— WINTER WHEATS. 



WINTER W MEAT S-Cont timed. 



EARLY RED CLAWS©**. (Bald.) 



The earliest Winter variety extant. This promising sort is 

 a cross between the popular Golden Cross fertilized on the 

 Clawson, partaking from tL. Golden Cross the compact head, 

 dark red grain, extreme hardiness, and strong, rapid growth, 

 and from the Clawson baldness and red chaff, with very large 

 kernels. It is without doubt the earliest sort yet known, enor- 

 mously productive, yielding from 35 to 48 bushels to the acre, 

 Straw very strong and bright; requires light seeding on rich, 

 strong soil, 1^ bushels being sufficient. We would call special 

 attention to this sort for heavy clay soils. The grain is very 

 dark and hard. (See cut.) J peck, $1.00; peck, $1 50; 

 bushel, $4.00; in lots of jo bushels and upwards, $3.75 per 

 bushel. 



THE GARFIELD. (Bald.) 



The heads are bald, of medium length, 

 firm and compact. The straw is stiff and 

 bright. The grain is white, rather long in 

 shape, and makes a clear white flour. 

 Very distinct, and certain to become a 

 standard sort. Price, $2. 25 per bushel;in 

 lots of 10 bushels and upwards, $2.00 per 

 bushel. 



GOLDEN CROSS. (Bearded.) 



This valuable new variety comes from 

 splendid parentage, being a hybrid of the 

 Mediterranean and Clawson. It is an 

 enormous yielder, is light bearded and 

 compact headed. Straw large, hard, 

 thick, strong pointed, which is proof 

 against the attack of the Hessian fly. It 

 is early, strong and rapid growing, pro- 

 ducing stools of mammoth size, and 

 yields from 50 to 60 bushels per acre. 

 The kernels are large and plump, weighing 

 on an average 65 lbs. to the measured 

 bushel. Price, per single bushel, $2.25; 

 in lots of 10 bushels and upwards, $ 2.00 

 per bushel. 



EARLY RED CLAWS' IN, 



JONES' SQUARE HEAD WHITE. (Bald.) 



This promising sort is making a splendid record in all sec- 

 tions where tested. It is a seedling grown from a cross be- 

 tween the Armstrong and a seedling not named. It is, without 

 doubt, the most handsome in head of any sort in cultivation, 

 and a very strong grower with straw of great strength support- 

 ing a large square head filled with white grain of superior 

 quality. 



Price, bush. $3.00, 



ROCHESTER RED. (Bald.) 

 A new variety of great promise, heads larger than the aver- 

 age varieties, red ch~. r f and red grain; medium large and very 

 flinty, one * the best for milling purposes; has a stiff straw 

 and does not lodge with high culture ; is 

 medium early, ripening with or a little 

 before the Fultz. In a favorable season 

 the yield was fifty bushels per acre, and 

 when well grown and well cleaned will 

 weigh sixty-four pounds to the measured 

 bushel. Per bush., $2.50 ; 10 bush. lots, 

 §2.25 per bushel. 



Martin Amber. (Bald.) 



While young the plants will sprour out, 

 forming a good protection to their own 

 roots ; later they stool out, and grow very 

 rapidly. The straw is tall and very stiff 

 and stands up well. The leaves are 

 very free from rust. It has large, Laid, 

 smooth, well filled heads, containing from 

 16 to 1 8 kernels, and is rather late in 

 ripening. The berry is a light amber 

 color, good size, very plump and hand- 

 some, and has a very thin hull, makes but 

 ttle bran, and yields a large return of 

 flour of the best quality. Price, $2.00 

 per bushel; in lots of 10 bushels and 

 upwards, $1.85 per bushel. 



FULTZ. (Bald.) A very popular, almost beardless amber variety, very hardy and productive. Straw of medium length, 

 and strong. It is an excellent milling sort, making the finest flower. Price, $2.00 per bushel ; in lots of 10 bushels and upwards, 

 $1.85 per bushel. 



HYBRID MEDITERRANEAN. (Bearded.) A well known, standard Winter Wheat, being a cross between 

 the old Diehl and Red Mediterranean. It produces large, square heads, with four rows of grain, having short beards. The 

 plants stool out well. The straw is stiff, of medium length, and easy to handle, and turns bronze at maturity. The grain is 

 of a handsome, amber red color, hard and flinty, making excellent flour. We recommend it as one of the surest and best for 

 ordinary farms and conditions. Price, $2.00 per bush.; in lots of 10 bush and upwards, $1.85 per bushel. 



RYE. 



Rye is a valuable crop for either soiling, green fodder, straw or grain. It is largely used by farmers to seed down with in the 

 Fall, and is considered preferable to wheat for this purpose, as it protects the young grass, and matures two weeks earlier in the 

 spring than wheat. 



EXCELSIOR WINTER. — A new variety, from Vermont, that has never failed to yield at the rate of from 40 to 50 

 bushels per acre. With the originator a four-acre field yielded 52 bushels to the acre, $2.00 per bushel. 



WINTER. — The variety most commonly cultivated, whether sown for grain, straw or cutting green, $1.50 per bushel. 



