4 HENDERSON’S. TESTED FARM SEEDS. 
TWO GRAND : : 
WINTER WHEATS Rural New Yorker AND Beane 
These are both the result of upwards of twenty years’ thoroughly | recent years. These two varieties have been selected from hundreds 
scientific crossing and careful selection at the hands of the late Mr. | of crosses and varieties as superior in all desirable qualities. They 
E. S. Carman, the well-known editor of the Rural New Yorker, and | have now been grown in most wheat-growing sections, and most 
raiser of many of the most valuable agricultural introductions of | flattering testimony has been received by us regarding their merits. 
‘““BEARDED'’ RURAL NEW YORKER WHEAT. 
“Bearded” 
Rural New Yorker 
(NUMBER 57) 
has heavily-bearded heads which are beautifully symmet- 
rical, being pointed at the tip, broad in the middle, and 
tapering toward 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 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 heads do not mildew as the full velvet 
chaff varieties are liable todo. (See cut.) 
Price, $2.50 per bushel; 10-bushel lots, $2.40 per bushel. 
“Beardless”’ 
Rural New Yorker 
(NUMBER 6) 
This beardless variety is a hybrid between Rye and 
Armstrong Wheat, though all traces of Rye have disap- 
peared 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 
with Ryeculms. 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 shaff. (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 weil 
without lodging. It is very hardy.”’ 
Price, $2.50 per bushel; 10-bushel lots, $2.40 per bushel. 
Henderson’s Superior Seeds are procurable only from us direct—we do not supply through dealers 
and it also has extreme hardiness to recommendit. When. 
first raised, some years ago, the top of the culms was downy 
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