. Vegetable, grass and flower seeds : spring and summer of 1899. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. ROSS BROTHERS ANNUAL CATALOGUE. JHE [UREKA [NSILAGE QORJi | r"%, Will Produce More Tons of Ensilage Per Acre Than Any Other Variety in Cultivation. k IOTHING which we have introduced or sold has J« met with a more hearty appreciation than the J Eureka Ensilage Corn, and the many favorable reports which we have received from our customers of last season have convinced us t
. Vegetable, grass and flower seeds : spring and summer of 1899. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. ROSS BROTHERS ANNUAL CATALOGUE. JHE [UREKA [NSILAGE QORJi | r"%, Will Produce More Tons of Ensilage Per Acre Than Any Other Variety in Cultivation. k IOTHING which we have introduced or sold has J« met with a more hearty appreciation than the J Eureka Ensilage Corn, and the many favorable reports which we have received from our customers of last season have convinced us that we have never given this corn the attention it deserved. Our trade has steadily increased year by year, but was much larger the past season ; in fact, the demand consider- ably exceeded the supply, and we were regretfully obliged to refuse orders. This variety was obtained by carefully selecting for fifteen years from the True Southern White the stalks which produced the largest amount of foliage and greatest number of ears, with the result, a variety which, with proper fertilizing,will grow from fourteen to eighteen feet high, and often have four and five ears to the stalk and one superior to any other variety for ensilage. This selection was made by one of the most reliable growers in Virginia, and who, since its introduction, has con- tinued to grow seed especially for us. Since its in- troduction there has been an evident improvement in it in regard to earliness, which was particularly no- ticeable the past season. While it would not be practicable to try to ripen seed here, yet the possibility of so doing was made apparent to us by the follow- ing incident: At the time of cutting last season, we were at a field which had a remarkable growth and which had eared well. We brought back to our store a few ears which, for an experiment, we husked and hung up to dry, and where they still remain, having small kernels, but which are as hard and dry as need be and which would p
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