. New and rare plants, bulbs, fruits. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Forage Plants that thrive on Arid Soils. SAND, WINTER or HAIRY VETCH. ( Vicia villosa.) This variety thrives on poor, arid, sandy soils. It is sown either in fall or in spring, and generally mixed wit h rye, which serves as a sup- port to the plants. It grows to a height of from three to four feet, and can be cut twice for fod- der, first as soon as the bloom appears, and then it can be agai n cut for the seed. The plant is perfectly har
. New and rare plants, bulbs, fruits. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Forage Plants that thrive on Arid Soils. SAND, WINTER or HAIRY VETCH. ( Vicia villosa.) This variety thrives on poor, arid, sandy soils. It is sown either in fall or in spring, and generally mixed wit h rye, which serves as a sup- port to the plants. It grows to a height of from three to four feet, and can be cut twice for fod- der, first as soon as the bloom appears, and then it can be agai n cut for the seed. The plant is perfectly hardy, and the produce is recommended as most nutritious. The seed is black and perfectly round, and should be sown at the rate of one and one- half bushels to the acre. Pkt. 10 cts.; pint ;£0cts.; quart 30 cts. all by mail. GIANT SPURRY. For worn out, clover sick, sandy, gravelly soil, no better crop can be planted than Giant Spurry—it tones up worn out soil and produces an abundance of sweet nutritious pasture and hay. Cows will give more, and better milk and butter when fed on this. Sow on waste places, sandy, gravelly, stony knolls and fields and get same returns from them. Price, oz. 10 cts.; lb. 25 cts. DOUBLE CUTTING SAINFOIN. This is a plant of tried and proven merits. It yields immense crops of hay and furnishes abundance of past- ure. On poor thin soils its greatest merits are revealed—t housands of acres of land in England and Germans'- that would not produce a pittance with- out this plant, with it make good returns to the farmer— easy grown and easy to cure as hay. Fine for sheep and equally good South and North. Price 5 cts. pkt.; lb. 25 cts. Sow 10 lb. per aere. LATHYRU9 SII/VESTRIS WAGNERI. This plant has only been be- fore the public for the last few years. It created a great sensation from the start, so thoroughly was it advertised and praised by the different agri- cultural experiment stations and foreign authorities. It has long fleshy roots like alfalfa
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