. Bliss and Son's illustrated spring catalogue and amateur's guide to the flower and kitchen garden. Flowers Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. Wheat, Hye, Barley, Oats and Buckwheat. SII,VER-HUL,L BUCKWHEAT. This extraordinary variety, originated abroad and carefully tested here for several years, is now offered as a very great improvement upon the ordinary black or gray Buckwheat. Sown at the same time as the common Buckwheat, it continues in bloom longer, matures a few days sooner, and yields nearly or quite double under the same conditions. The g
. Bliss and Son's illustrated spring catalogue and amateur's guide to the flower and kitchen garden. Flowers Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. Wheat, Hye, Barley, Oats and Buckwheat. SII,VER-HUL,L BUCKWHEAT. This extraordinary variety, originated abroad and carefully tested here for several years, is now offered as a very great improvement upon the ordinary black or gray Buckwheat. Sown at the same time as the common Buckwheat, it continues in bloom longer, matures a few days sooner, and yields nearly or quite double under the same conditions. The grain is of a beautiful light gray color, varying slightly in shade, and the corners are much less prominent than in the ordinary variety, while the husk is thinner, thereby saving from 15 to 20 per cent, waste in the process of manufacturing into flour, which flour is whiter and more nutritious. Price per bushel, ; half bushel, ; peck, ; lib., 40 cts.; 3 lbs., $ Ordinary Buckwheat, bush., SPKING WHEAT—Triticum ajstivum. Bush. China Spring:.—A white chaff, bearded variety; produces long heads well filled wltli plump kernels, -$3 50 Mediterranean Spring.—This variety is bearded, yields well, and the kernels are much larger than those of the other Spring varieties, - - - - - WINTER WHEAT—Triticum hybernum. Seneca Wheat.—The Seneca is a smooth white wheat with red chaff, and the best variety experimented with, either America or foreign, - -- -- -- -- Treadwell.—It is a white Wheat, and somewhat later than the Weeks', but is ranker in its growth, and the straw is stifEer; good yielder, and like Weeks', both bald and bearded, - Boughton.—A line white bald Wheat, producing a short, stiif straw, with heads short, but well filled, very productive, and should be grown on light, warm, ricli soil, - - - Diehl.—A bald Wheat, prolific and hardy, enduring our cold Winters as well as any of the older sorts. The grain is white, and ripens early, ----
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