. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm & garden. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. General List of Agricultural Seeds. 71 BUCKWHEAT. For a late summer crop Buckwheat is very desirable and profitable, especially in mountainous sections where Cow Peas no not succeed so well. It is easily grown, makes splendid flower food for bees and a large yield of grain, which can usually be sold for remunerative prices. It is also valuable for tur
. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm & garden. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. General List of Agricultural Seeds. 71 BUCKWHEAT. For a late summer crop Buckwheat is very desirable and profitable, especially in mountainous sections where Cow Peas no not succeed so well. It is easily grown, makes splendid flower food for bees and a large yield of grain, which can usually be sold for remunerative prices. It is also valuable for turning under as an improver of the soil. Even when grown for the grain crop, buckwheat is not considered exhaustive to the soil. As a smothering crop whore the land is full of objectionable weeds it is very desirable, and it puts the soil in admirable condition for any crop that is desired to succeed it. Sow at the rate of one bushel per acre broadcast in June, July, or early in August. Japanese. This variety of buckwheat ripens a week earlier than the Silver Hull, and yields more largely than that va- riety. The kernels are larger than those of other sorts, but owing to its branching qualities, it need not be sown quite so thickly. Per peck, 40c; per bushel, about $ Silver Hull. A prolific and favorite sort, making a fine quality of flour. A superior variety in every way to the or- dinary buckwheat, which it has almost entirely superseded. About $1 per bushel. Current prices quoted on Jerusalem or White French Artichokes, This variety is not grown from seed, but is grown from tubers, and is cultivated like potatoes. Hogs can be turned on them about two weeks after the blossoms fall, and allowed to feed on the roots throughout the winter, except when the _ ground is frozen, until the plant begins to grow again. This rtjflk^r dOk ^SfeiSJIll^ saves the labor and expense of harvesting and storing, and {Mm WW ^flflffiS^^w will be found very economical. They arc exc
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