. 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. GRAINS. Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats and Buckwheat. SILVEK-HUI-L BUCKWHEAT. This extraordinary variety, oiigiiialed abroad and carefully tested here for several years, is now oll'eied as a very great iinproveineiit upon the onlinary black or gray IJuckwheat. Sown at the same lime as the common Buckwheat, it continues in bloom longer, maluies a few days sooner, and yields nearly or (juite double under the same con
. 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. GRAINS. Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats and Buckwheat. SILVEK-HUI-L BUCKWHEAT. This extraordinary variety, oiigiiialed abroad and carefully tested here for several years, is now oll'eied as a very great iinproveineiit upon the onlinary black or gray IJuckwheat. Sown at the same lime as the common Buckwheat, it continues in bloom longer, maluies a few days sooner, and yields nearly or (juite double under the same conditions. The grain is of a beauiifiil light gray color, varying slightly in shade, and the corners are much less prominent than in the ordinal^ variety, wliile tlie husk is thinner, tlicrehy saving from 15 to 21) per cent, waste in the proci^ss of manufacturing into tlour, which Hour is whiter and more nutritious. Frice per bushel, ; half bushel, ; peck, «; 4 lbs. by mail, Ordinary Buckwheat, bush., SPRING AVHEAT—Triticuin oestivum. Jiush. China Spring.—A white chalT, bearded variety; produces long heads well filled with plump kernels, - - - - - - - - - - - -S4 00 Mediterranean Spring.—This variety is bearded, yields well, and the kernels are much larger than those o£ the other Spring varieties, - - - - - AVINTER WHEAT—Triticuin hybernum. Seneca Wheat.—The Seneca is a smooth white wheat with red chaff, .and the test variety experimented with, either America or foreign, - -- -- -- -- Treadvvell.—It is a white Wheat, and somewhat later than the Weeks', hut is ranker in its growth, and the straw is slitter; good yiclder, and like Weeks', both bald and bearded, - line white bald Wheat, producing a short, stiff straw, with heads short, but well tilled, very productive, and should be grown on light, warm, l ich soil, - - - Diehl.—A bald Wheat, prolilic .and hardy, enduring our cold Winters as well as any of the older sorts. Th
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