. Descriptive catalogue of high grade seeds for the farm and garden. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Virginia Richmond. General List of Choice Vegetable Seeds. 63 Millet, Sorghum and Fodder Plants. PRICES VARIABLE. SPECIAL FOR LARGE QUANTITIES. German or Golden :>Iillet. Time Southern grown seed. This is the favorite, and \vill grow in al- any climate or soil, and the j-ield in hay or seed is larger than any variety. It grows from three to four feet high : the heads ar
. Descriptive catalogue of high grade seeds for the farm and garden. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Virginia Richmond. General List of Choice Vegetable Seeds. 63 Millet, Sorghum and Fodder Plants. PRICES VARIABLE. SPECIAL FOR LARGE QUANTITIES. German or Golden :>Iillet. Time Southern grown seed. This is the favorite, and \vill grow in al- any climate or soil, and the j-ield in hay or seed is larger than any variety. It grows from three to four feet high : the heads are clostly condensed, and the spikes are niunerous. Cut while in blossom for hay. Sow one bushel per acre when the weather gets warm ih May, or any time during summer until end of July. Two crops can be seeded and grcv>-n during the summer on the same laud, which should be rich. Price, about $ per bushel. Hnnsrajrian ]>Iillet Grass. {Paiuaim German- icum.) This, like the ether millets, is an annual: it _ , grows two or three feet high, has abundant foliage, but ! the best hoaiiny I ever ate. The past season was the It grows about four feet high, and makes one large head on the main stalk and several smaller heads ou side shoots, somt.'times as many as eight ht aiis on the stalk. The grains are pare white and nearly flat. The follow- ing is an extract from a report regarding this corn, from Mr Henry C. Brooks. Superintendent of the Kansas Experimental Grass and Forage Station : " Out of ninety acres iu crop, with di&Vrent varieties of foiage plants, the Jerasalem Corn was the only kind tnat did any good. I consider it good both for man and beast. Have ex- perimented with it in fatten'ng hcgs, and the hogs are in as fine cond tiou as I ever saw. I have also used it in mv familv in the form of hcminv. and it certainlv makes grows less rank than the German. It does weU on rich soils, especially on low grounds, making a most nutri- tious hay. Sow one bushel per acr
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