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and better than any other. Would you kind¬ 
ly send us a few seeds that we may test them? 
Respectfully, Ed. R. N.-Y. 
Dear Sir:—I have much pleasure in com¬ 
plying with your request for a sample of the 
New Extra Early Pea wo have for some time 
past been engaged in perfecting, and we 
should be very glad to have you place them 
iu your trial grounds aud compare them with 
any other peas of the same class you may have 
obtained. They will bear close comparison 
and we are confident you will find them a 
great acquisition. Wc have been working 
at them for several years, and are more than 
satisfied with the results obtained. Veiy p? o- 
lillc (please note size of the pods), we claim 
them to t»e the earliest and most even in 
maturing of any pea yet introduced, and 
know the pea itself will substantiate every 
claim we make for it. Hoping that at the 
earliest practicable moment you will favor us 
with your opinion of them. I remain 
Yours respectfully, 
A. B. Cleveland per J. E. North hup. 
Dear Sir:—We received May 4 or 5, 50 seeds 
of your new pea. These were planted May 6. 
A severe spell of dry weather followed. June 
20 , the vines were 2** feet high, slender but 
remarkably uniform iu hight and habit. One 
hundred pods weighed 10 ounces, containing 
054 seeds which weighed eight ounces. The 
[icas ripen very nearly all at once. We are 
disposed to regard them as really the “First 
and Best' 1 in cultivation and would be pleased 
to secure a quantity large enough to send to 
Rural subscribers in our next Free Seed Dis¬ 
tribution if not too costly. Hoping to hear 
from you at once. Respectfully, 
Rural New-Yorker. 
Dear Sir:—Your favor of the 23d ulto. at 
hand and noted. At this time of the year we 
are obliged to be among our pea crop con¬ 
stantly, and have until now been unable to 
give your communication the consideration it 
demanded, otherwise it would have been 
answered more promptly. We are gratified 
to receive such a good report of the peas sent 
you by us at your request for trial, aud feel 
sure that under more favorable conditions 
they would have done even better. Oar own 
trials prove them to be decidedly superior to 
any others we have tested them with, aud 
we have grown them side by side with every 
other Extra Early of any note. We should 
lie greatly pleased to have them introduced 
through the medium of your valued paper. 
take one thousand ($1,000) dollars a bushel for 
what we now have. We hope the proposition 
as above will meet your approval. Should it 
do so please to let us know at as early a date 
as possible the number of peas you will re- 
qun-e and we will send you all we possibly can 
spare. Yours respectfully, 
A.. B. Cleveland per J. E. Northrup. 
THIRD, 
THE CROSS-BRED DIEHL-MEDITER 
RANEAN WHEAT. 
We received last year from several persons 
a small quantity of this wheat to test- 
Through some mistake one drill was marked 
as having been received from Sir. J. B. 
Lawes, of England. It was sown not until 
October and every plant passed the Winter 
without harm, tillered more than any other 
the best of a number of selected ears sent to 
us by the originator and true to nature both 
as to the ear, kernel cross-section and cob. 
We have about one acre of this corn growing 
at the Rural Experiment Grounds, but at the 
time wo are obliged to make these notes it is 
not far enough advanced to justify us in 
arriving at am* conclusions. Our readers 
may rely at harvest upon an impartial report 
THE RURAL’S 
Next Free Seed Distribution 
THE RURAL UNION CORN 
20 Years’ Selection 
FROM THREE KINDS AT FIRST. 
Prolific, Early, Six Feet High. 
Large Kernels, Small Cobb. 
I would not sell my stock for #1,000 per 
bushel, 1 ’ says the originator. The Earliest 
aud best in Cultivation. It will uot 
be offered for sale in two years. 
Cross-Bred Mediterranean-Diehl 
The Hardiest and Most Prolific of Wheats. 
A NEW RYE 
OF GREAT PROMISE. 
Horsford's Market Carden Pea. 
An Intermediate of Great Productiveness. 
Not offered for sale. 
BLACK CHAMPION OATS 
A Selection from many Foreign 
Varieties. Not offered 
for sale. 
The Rural Garden Treasures 
Enough for a small Garden of the Choicest 
Annuals. Biennials and Perennials. 
One hundred kinds from the 
Rural Grounds, from 
Europe and Rural 
Subscribers. 
TOMATOES 
A mixed Packet of all the new kinds 
together with several originating at 
the Rural Experiment Grounds 
amt never offered for sale. 
A Really Valuable Combination of New and 
Choice Varieties offered to all subscribers 
of the Rural Nkw-Yokkkr who apply 
sending us a three-cent stamp in 
pai t-paymenfc of postage and 
as a guarantee that they 
are interested in caring 
for the seeds. 
the entire collection to each applicant. 
mil 
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THE RURAL UNION CORN. 
Thousand Fold Rye.—Fig. 613. 
kind and ripened with Clawson The*other 
plots which proved to be the same were equally 
hardy, but as they were sown in September 
this was deemed the hardiest and in our re* 
port was the only variety ranked at 100. The 
illustrations Figs. 618-0 show a front and a side 
v iew of the average head ;ts raised in our experi¬ 
ment plot. There are 10 breasts or spikelets to a 
side, each containing from three to four grains 
which are of a dark amber color. In our 
soil and climate the Clawson or Fultz will 
average but a fraction over two grains to n 
spikelet. The following letter written July 
18 iu response to our request, is by Mr. E. H. 
Libby, the agricultural specialist of Hu am 
Sibley & Co., of Rochester, N. Y. 
“ We send yon by express to-day two stools 
of the Hybrid Mediterranean Wheat from our 
test gardeu plat. The rust you will see on the 
leaves is due to excessive wet and alternate 
hot days, but no harm has resulted to the 
The originator of this corn states that it was 
produced by r planting three varieties together 
in the same field 20 years ago, aud continuing 
to make selections from year to year of the 
best eai-s which continued to show the three 
strains. Ho further states that bo has re¬ 
peatedly raised over 100 bushels of shelled 
corn per acre under good care and cultiva¬ 
tion; that the stalks are more prolific even 
than Blount’s, often bearing three largo ears 
to a stalk and occasionally four aud five; that 
4 t will ripen in IK) days in average seasons; 
that it gnnrs but six fret high; that the cob 
is small, the kernels large aud that the grain 
makes a meal distinctly superior to that of 
any other deut corn. 
We do uot cither credit or discredit these 
remarkable claims, wo do but present them to 
t he reader as they have been made to us. 
The engraving p. 558 Fig. 014 is drawn from 
Black Champion Oats.—Fig 612. 
from the Rural, whether it may greatly dis¬ 
appoint the hopes of the originator or realize 
his expectations. 
We have for some time been trying to satisfy 
ourselves with an appropriate name aud your 
letter has served to solve that difficulty', We 
have decided, in recognition of that journal 
w hich bus done so nine h to advance the in 
terest of the agriculturist and market gar¬ 
dener, to call the pea—“Cleveland’s Rural 
New-Yorker 1 'and to give the christening a 
substantial character we will send enough of 
them to enable each applicant (subscriber to 
the Rural) to judge personally of their merits. 
Of course, wo can spare you but few as our 
stock is so small and valuable, that uuder the 
most favorable circumstances we cannot sell 
them in any quantity for at least two years. 
If we should seek to sell you any, you might 
deem our price excessive, as w'e would not 
SECOND. 
CLEVELAND’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PEA. 
The following correspondence will explain 
itself: 
Mu. A. B. Cleveland, 
Cape Vincent, N. J. 
Dear Sir:—We hear that through several 
years you have beeu making careful selections 
from the earliest peas in cultivation, and that 
the resulting improved strain is really' earlier 
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