Dreer's garden calendar : 1896 . dreersgardencale1896henr Year: 1896 36 DREER'S RELIABLE SEEDS. OATS. Thirty-two pounds to the bushel. American Beauty. This excellent and popular variety is characterized by great vigor of growth, earliness and remarkable cropping qualities. The grain is large, long and tapering; straw erect and stout. Peck 40 cts., bu. $ White Maine. This fine variety is grown with much favor by the farmers in Western New York, where it yields with ordinary cultivation from 70 to 90 bushels per acre. Peck. 40 cts., bu. $, 10 bu. lots at $ per bu. Clydesdale. A
Dreer's garden calendar : 1896 . dreersgardencale1896henr Year: 1896 36 DREER'S RELIABLE SEEDS. OATS. Thirty-two pounds to the bushel. American Beauty. This excellent and popular variety is characterized by great vigor of growth, earliness and remarkable cropping qualities. The grain is large, long and tapering; straw erect and stout. Peck 40 cts., bu. $ White Maine. This fine variety is grown with much favor by the farmers in Western New York, where it yields with ordinary cultivation from 70 to 90 bushels per acre. Peck. 40 cts., bu. $, 10 bu. lots at $ per bu. Clydesdale. An early and productive variety. Peck 40 cts., bu. , 10 bus. at $ per bu. American Banner. A valuable variety; ripens early; grain white, large and plump; very productive and heavy; has a stiff straw of good length. Peck 40 cts., bu. $ Special prices to buyers of large qua7itities. BARLEY. Manshurey. The most productive six-rowed variety. It ripens early, with strong, stiff straw. Peck 50 cts., bu. $ SPRING WHEAT. Saskatchewan Fife. This is known as the most desirable variety of Spring Wheat in cultivation. It is unequalled for productiveness, earli- ness and vigor. Peck 50 els., bu. $ SPRING RYE. Used as a catch crop to sow where winter grain has failed. Straw stiffer and shorter than the Winter Rye; grain of equal value. Sow \\ bushels to the acre. Peck 50 cts., bu. § BUCKWHEAT. Japanese. This superior variety is earlier and more prolific and yields double the weight per acre of other sorts. Sow about the middle of June broadcast from 2 to 3 pecks per acre. Qt. 10 cts., peck 50 cts., bu. (48 lbs.) $ By mail, per lb. 30 cts. Silver Hull. Flour whiter and more nutritious than the Japanese. Qt. 10 cts., peck 50 cts., bu. $ By mail, per lb. 30 cts. ***** niSCELLANEOUS SEEDS. •.*.•;•• Southern Black-Eye Cow Peas. Also known as Sand Pea, a small white variety with black eye. Sow 2 bush- els to the acre. Qt. 15 cts., peck 75 cts., bu. $
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