CARTERS’ NEW CROSS BRED WHEATS. 
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Eminent Agriculturists and Scientific Authorities. 
“ The results have been very probably surprising to 
themselves (Messrs. Carter). Increase of vigour is an 
added recommendation to all the new wheats. The 
experiment is little short of national importance. It 
deserves the widest support from those who grow 
wheat, and recognition for honours from those who 
pose as the champions and instructors of agriculturists. 
It is a fact that all the inclemencies of the season, all 
the disadvantages of an uncongenial soil and unsuitable 
site for wheat, have been borne so far (August 25th, 
1888) with less damage by Messrs. Carters’ newly 
originated varieties than by any of the most favoured 
ones brought to pit against them from the Old or the 
New World, and this means that Messrs. Carters’ ex- 
periments are a very real success.” — T)ie Field. 
“ With regard to Messrs. Carters’ Cross Bred 
Wheats, all plant improvers await their appearance on 
the market with the greatest interest, not without great 
hope that an absolute improvement may be accomplished 
as the result of the first attempt in England at the 
systematic breeding of wheat.” 
Morton's (nmu Vinton's) Almanac for 1889. 
“ There are wheats with short, very stiff straw and 
large ears well suited for heavy lands ; there are others 
notable for early maturity, and yet others in which the 
high quality of a delicate wheat has been blended with 
the hardiness of a more prolific strain.” — The Standard. 
“ Certainly in many cases the cross (Messrs. Carters’ 
Cross Bred Wheats) was obvious enough. I saw one 
plant of sixty good ears ripened beautifully from a 
single grain.” — The late Mr. J. Chalmers Morton, 
in The Agricultural Gazette. 
“ A very important feature is the remarkable vigour 
and productiveness of the hybrids as compared with the 
parents, the cultivation being the same for all.” 
The late Mr. J. Algernon Clarke, in The Times. 
“We can testify to the remarkable results, in stature, 
earliness or lateness, size, shape, colour of ear and 
grain, and many other points.” 
Dr. Masters, in The Gardenerd Chronicle, 
“The success achieved in each direction has been 
very marked, as we can testify from a visit to Messrs. 
Carters’ experiments. The Cross Bred Wheats have 
assumed a permanent character.” 
Mr. Turner, in The Mark Lane Express. 
“ Messrs. Carters’ Cross Bred Wheats present highly 
successful results.” — The Daily Telegraph, 
“For thirty years nothing of importance has been 
done in this direction (cross breeding of wheat) until 
Messrs. Carter took the matter up in earnest, and we 
are gratified at the very complete success which has 
resulted from their tedious, unremitting labours.”— 
Belts Messenger. 
“ As a rule, red and white wheats have been crossed, 
and the produce is generally very translucent, and of 
an amber shade of colour.” — Morning Post. 
“We hope that the English farmer may be the 
first to avail himself of these better sorts of wheat. 
There can be no bes t sort of wheat for all districts. 
Only for particular situations, soils, and climates are 
the various wheats naturally adapted.” 
Mr. H. Evershed, in The Daily Chronicle. 
In a review on Mr. Evershed’s article, “Varieties of Wheat and Methods of Improving them,” in the 
“Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society,” The Agricultural Gazette of May 13th, 1889, remarks : “ When all 
the new crosses raised by this Firm (Messrs. Carters) with such assiduous painstaking come into the market, there 
will be a greatly improved selection of varieties to suit different circumstances.” 
