. Catalogue of the Cox Seed and Plant Co. Seed industry and trade Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Catalogs. Jerusalem Corn. This corn belongs to the non- sacharine sorghums, and was brought here from the arid plains of Palestine by a missionary, who gave two grains of it to a farmer in Finney County, Kansas. These two ,grains made five heads the first year, nest season he got five bushels, and next season he planted eight acres and gathered 200 bushels. It is pronounced the best and surest grain crop for dry countries a
. Catalogue of the Cox Seed and Plant Co. Seed industry and trade Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Catalogs. Jerusalem Corn. This corn belongs to the non- sacharine sorghums, and was brought here from the arid plains of Palestine by a missionary, who gave two grains of it to a farmer in Finney County, Kansas. These two ,grains made five heads the first year, nest season he got five bushels, and next season he planted eight acres and gathered 200 bushels. It is pronounced the best and surest grain crop for dry countries and seasons. It grows about three feet high, makes one large head on main stalk, and several smaller heads on side shoots. The grains are pure white and nearly flat. Three pounds will plant an acre. Per lb., 10c; 100 lbs., Rice—Wild [Zizania aquatica). The wild rice of the North and West is a valuable forage plant for swamps and overflowed land, also highly esteemed for sowing along water courses to attract fowl. Excellent, either green or cured. Our seed stock gathered by the Indians, on Pice Lake, Canada, the past season, is of the finest grade, one that we can recommend to sportsmen's clubs for wild duck feeding. Lb., 30c. Directions for Sowing. — "Put the rice in coarse linen or cotton bags, and sink them in water for twenty-four hours. Sow in water which is from six inches to five feet deep, in soft mud bottom, and in places where there are but-few weeds. It is useless sowing this seed except on a mud bottom, or on low marshy places, which are covered with water the year around. In running water, sow as much out of the current as ; Broom Corn, Improved Evergreen. Grows about seven feet high, brush of good length, and of green appearance when ripe. Lb., 10c. Peanut. The Peanut thrives and produces best on a light, sandy, tolerably fertile soil, with a good clay sub- soil. It possesses a long tap-root, which extends deep into the earth, drawing t
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