PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— WINTER WHEATS. 



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WINTER W^WEAXS. 



Prices are subject to the fluctuations of the market. The prices herein named are those ruling at this date 

 (August), for the new crop 1895. Delivery f. 0. b. New York. 



Two Grand (ieW Wheats. 



OFFERED LAST YEAR 

 FOR THE FIRST TIME. 



both of which are the result of upwards of twenty 

 years' thoroughly scientific crossing and careful 

 selection at the hands of Mr. E. S. Carman, the 

 well-known editor of the Rural New Yorker, and 

 raiser of many of the most valuable agricultura 

 introductions of recent years. These two varie 

 ties have been selected and retained after discard- 

 ing hundreds of varieties, the result of numerous 

 crosses. We are well aware that with the present 

 low price of wheat, it is not inviting to pay high 

 prices for new varieties of seed Wheat, yet it is 

 only by sowing the choicest and heaviest-cropping 

 varieties that wheat can now be grown except at 

 a loss. 



RURAL 

 NEW YORKER 

 No. 57. 



Has heavily bearded heads 

 which are beautifully symmet- 

 rical, 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. "1 he 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, 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. (See cut.) 25 cts. lb., 

 3 lbs. for 60 cts. free by mail, and at the following rates f.o.b. 

 New York, $1.25 peck. $4.50 bush., 2 bushels, for $8,00, 



RURAL NEW YORKER No. 6. 



RURAL 



NEW YOSKER 



NO. 57. 



RURAL NEW VORKER NO. 6. 



This beardless variety is a hybrid between Rye an-d Armstrong Wheat, though 

 apparently all traces of Rye have disappeared and it now appears a handsome, 

 beardless \\ heat. 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. \\ hen first raised, some 

 years ago, the top of the culms was downy with Rye culms. This characteristic 

 could not be fixed, so that for this variety the culms having no down were alone 

 selected. 1 he 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 strrng as any wheat I ever saw. It had a vigorous, healthy growth all the season 

 and stood well v.ithout lodging. It is verj- hardy." 



25 cts. lb., 3 lbs. for 60 cts. free by mail, and at the following rates f. o. b. 

 New York ; $1.25 peck, I4.50 bushel, 2 bushels for |8.oo. 



