PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK- 



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SPRING WHEHTS. 



Often, through pressure of other work, the seeding of Winter Wheat is neglected until too late and 

 is either not sown at all or results in failure. 



With the two varieties of Spring Wheat here offered, this difficulty can be overcome by Spring 

 sowing. 



They are the best of the Spring Wheats, yield well, and the milling quality of the grain surpasses 

 even the best of the winter varieties. 



Spring wheat is also a satisfactory crop to sow along with grass seed. 



WeL-I_7UYHN I=II=E. 



We consider this to be the best of all the Spring Wheats, being an improvement on the well-known 

 and favorite Saskatchewan, having larger heads and giain, and the straw taller and stronger, with 

 white chaff heads and dark amber kernels. The grain is very hard and produces the finest grade of 

 flour, and is eagerly sought after by millers. It is enormously productive, outyielding all other Spring 

 Wheats, and is invaluable for spring sowing where the Winter Wheat has been killed, or where it was 

 not sown, owing to excessive drought or other causes in the fall. (See cut.) $2.25 per bushel; 

 10-bushel lots, $2.10 per bushel. 



SHSKHTCHEMHN F=IF=e. 



The favorite variety in the great Spring Wheat sections of the Northwest, where it is much 

 esteemed by the farmer for its earliness, productiveness, vigorous growth and freedom from smut and 

 diseases, and by the miller on account of its unsurpassed milling qualities. $2.10 per bushel; 10-bushel 

 lots, $2.u0 per bushel. 



WINTER WHEATS. 



PRICES ON HPPLICATION. 





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BtJBAI, HEW YORKER NO. 6. 



•WINTER. WHEAT. 



RURAL NEW YORKER No. 57. 



Has heavily bearded heads which are beauti- 

 fully 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 compact. 



averaging three kfrnelstoaspikeletor "breast," 



and ten breasts to a side. The kernels are of 



medium size and of an attractive color, between 



so-called "red" and amber. Possessing the 

 requisite degree of hardness for the production of the 

 finest grade of flour, it will be much sought after by 

 millers. The chaff is clear white, with a trace of 

 velvet i-ufflcient to make it difficult for the green fly 

 to attack it, and the heads do not mildew as the full 

 velvet chaff varieties are liable to do. 



RURAL NEW YORKER No. 6. 



This beardless variety is a hybrid between Eye 

 and Armstrong Wheat, though apparently all traces 

 of Rye have disappeared, anil it now appears a hand- 

 some, 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 recommend it. When first raised, 



some years ago, the top of the culms was downy with Rye culms. This characteiistic 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 bad a vigorous, healthy growth all the season and stood well 

 without lodging. It is very hardy." 



JONES' LONGBERRY No. 1.— Will soon take the place of the old popular Longberries 

 now no longer profitable, through light yield and weakened vitality. 



From the fact that it is a blending of red and amber wheat in one berry, millers will 

 quickly recognize its high milling quality. 



PRIDE OF GENESEE. (Bearded.)— One of the most productive varieties, having a 

 long, well-filled head, and the fact that it will give a reasonably good crop on land so poor t hat 

 common sorts would be a failure, cannot fail to make it a popular sort. 



DIAMOND GRIT, OR WINTER SASKATCHEWAN. (Bearded.)— A worthy rival 

 at last to the Hard Spring of the Northwest, being superior to every known winter wheat 

 for milling, and will be the means of stimulating farmers to a more general cultivation of 

 the winter wheat crop. 



GOLD COIN. (Bald.)— A very productive variety which has yielded over 60 

 bushels per acre and even on large acreages has seldom run under 40 bushels per acre. The 

 grain is white, the head long and well filled, frequently having live kernels abreast. 



\ BEARDED WINTER FIFE.— A grand new bearded Wheat, which has all the splendid 

 milling qualities of the celebrated Winter Fife. It is one of the earliest wheats, and is a 

 very strong, healthy grower, stooling rapidly in the fall. 



WEL1.HAN FIFE 



SPRING WHEAT, 



