NEW CROSS BRED WHEAT. 
CARTERS’ QUEEN. 
(SELECTION D.) 
Pate amber, long, full. 
Colour and Quality of Grain transparent. 
Length of Straw (with Ear) 54 inches. 
Length of Ear 6 inches. 
Colour of Chaff Pale yellowish white. 
Average Period of Ripening on Clay Loam Soil ... End of July. 
Parents ...Imperial White and Smooth Chaff Club-headed Red Wheats. 
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS. 
Extremely productive (habit semi-erect), a plant in 1886 having produced 60 fully 
developed Ears, showing a yield of three-thousandfold ! Other plants of this variety have 
since been found with 40 to 50 Ears. This Selection possesses the properties of both parents 
in general appearance of straw and grain. 
Straw medium, stout, and very strong, of a bright yellowish-white colour when ripe ; 
chaff velvety ; grain of excellent quality. 
Two Ears of this Selection contained respectively 70 and 67 grains. 
This Selection was estimated to produce 54 bushels per acre upon poor burning soil 
at our Seed Farms in 1887. 
Strongly recommended for early Spring as well as Autumn sowing. 
“ One plant was pointed out to us which bore 60 distinct, very long, and well-filled ears, 
averaging about 50 grains per ear, or a total of about 3,000 grains grown from one seed.” — Times. 
PRAOTIOALLY FREE FROM RUST, 1890. 
J. F. ISauDALi., Esq., Ampthill, writes: “I have a grand crop of Carters’ New Cross Bred Wheat. 
‘ The (Jueen.’ ” 
Mr. II. C. Barnham, Griston Park Farm, Norfolk, writes: “I find the quantity and quality of the 
straw of .Messrs. Carters’ New Cross Bred Wheat, ‘The Queen,’ to be very good.” 
Price 21/- per Bushel of 63 lbs. 
Offered so long as stock lasts. All orders executed in strict rotation. 
