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



■* WINTER ••• WHEKTS.^ 



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

 (September) , for the new crop 1894. Delivery f. o. b. New York. 



Two [[rand pieto Winter 1 Wheats 



NOW OFFERED 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 agricultural introductions of recent 

 years. These two varieties have been selected 

 and retained after discarding hundreds of va- 

 rieties, the result of numerous crosses, and 

 which were not considered sufficiently superior 

 to existing varieties to warrant their introduc- 

 tion. 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 we 

 consider it well worth the while of all agricul- 

 turists to procure sufficient of these profitable 

 Wheats to grow seed for another year, as it is 

 only by sowing the choicest and heaviest-crop- 

 ping varieties that wheat can now be grown 

 except at a loss. 



BUBAL NEW YORKER NO 



RURAL 

 NEW YORKER 



No. 57. 



Has heavily bearded 

 heads which are beautifully 

 symmetrical, being pointed at 

 the tip, broad in the middle and 

 tapering towards the stem. The 

 straw is unusually tall and strong 

 s^^ev 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, be- 

 tween the so-called " red " and amber. Pos 

 sessing 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 va- 

 rieties are liable to do. (See cut.) 

 30c. >n pt. pkt., $1.00 qt., free by mail. 



RURAL NEW YORKER No. 6. 



This beardless variety is a hybrid between Rye and Armstrong Wheat, 

 though apparently all traces of Eye have disappeared 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, 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 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 abrown chaff. (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 well without lodging. It is very hardy." 



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

 York : $1.50 peck, $5.00 bushel, 2 bushels for $9.00. 



BUBAL 



NEW YORKEB 



NO. 67. 



