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•PETER HENDERSON A CO., NEW YORK 



SPRING iA^HEHTS. 



The exceptionally dry fall last year in some sections of the country made plowing impossible, and 

 many fields intended for Wheat remain unsown. 



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



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. 



iA£El-L-7VIMN F=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 grain, 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.) $2.00 per bushel ; 

 10-bushel lots, SI. 85 per bushel. 



SKSICMXOHEiAiMN PIPE. 



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. S'2.00 per bushel; 10-bushel 

 lots, $1,85 per bushel. 



iAiINTBR AaZHEATS. 



PRICES ON jncpPL-ICKTION. 



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 kernelstoaspikeletor "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, it will be 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 heads do not mildew as the full 

 velvet chaff varieties are liable to do. 



RURAL NEW YORKER No. 6. 



SPRI?iG -WHEAT. 



BUBAL NEW TOItKI u Ko. 6. 



WITS'TER. WHEAT. 



This beardless variety is a hybrid between Rye 

 and Armstrong Wheat, though apparently all traces 

 of Kye have disappeared, and 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 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 aU the season and stood well 

 without lodging. It is very liardy." 



EARLY GENESEE GIANT. (Half-bearded.) Is well named, for, after a thorough 

 test, we lind it giant in grain, giant in yield and giant in weight. 



EARLY WHITE LEADER. (Bald. J— Very productive, and the whitest grained variety. 



JONES' WINTER FIFE. (Bald.)— A hea%-y cropper and exceedingly rich in gluten, 

 producing the highest grade of flour. 



FULTZ. (Bald.) — A very popular variety, hardy and productive. 



EARLY RED CLAWS'ON (Bald.)— Straw very strong and bright; requu-es light 

 seeding on rich soils, and is especially valuable for strong clay soils. 



HYBRID MEDITERRANEAN. (Bearded.) — Produces large square heads, with four 

 rows of grain of a handsome amber red color. 



ROCHESTER RED. (Bald.)— Has a stiff straw, and does not lodge with high culture ; 

 medium early. 



GOLDEN CROSS. (Bearded.) — Very compact head, early, strong and rapid growing, 

 S producing stools of mammoth size. 



AMERICAN BRONZE. (Bald.)— Is of medium height and the thickest walled sfrcAv in 

 cultivation, resisting severe wind-storms without lodging. A very strong grower and of spreading 

 habit; requires light seeding on rich soil. 



