Spring catalogue of seeds, bulbs and plants for 1890 . ing exceedingly graceful and beautifulfor large bouquets or vases of dried everlasting flowers,antumn leaves or grasses for winter decoration. Secondly,the seed is a most valuable food for canaries or other birds,and is cheaply raised, a packet of seed producing manypounds, with little or no attention. Thirdly, it is a mostvaluable grain to raise for stock or fowls, outyieldiug oatstwo to one, and is greatly relished by all animals. It is also avaluable fodder plant for feeding green or making hay. Theplant grows about three feet high, its
Spring catalogue of seeds, bulbs and plants for 1890 . ing exceedingly graceful and beautifulfor large bouquets or vases of dried everlasting flowers,antumn leaves or grasses for winter decoration. Secondly,the seed is a most valuable food for canaries or other birds,and is cheaply raised, a packet of seed producing manypounds, with little or no attention. Thirdly, it is a mostvaluable grain to raise for stock or fowls, outyieldiug oatstwo to one, and is greatly relished by all animals. It is also avaluable fodder plant for feeding green or making hay. Theplant grows about three feet high, its long graceful heads ofgrain being very ornamental for clumps or masses. Sown inMay it ripens in August, and can be cut anytime after thebeads have turned yellow, or they can be left standing for along time. This plant is destined to l>e grown universallyfrom Maine to California as soon as its merits are known. Tryit for your fowls or birds, and you will ever after grow itabundantly. It gives an enormous yield. Per Packet, 10 cts.:ounce, 40 ASPARAGUS CHICHORV. Asparagus (^Ijicfyory. This remarkable vegetable is quite new. It is a wonderfulcurative for all disorders of the stomach. It produces a largequantity of compact short stems, which, when cut are repro-duced time after time. The benefit derived from the con-sumption of these stems for only a short time, by those havingweak digestion, is said to be remarkable. The leaves whenboiled make a very wholesome and delicious salad, and thestrong shoots when young and tender are cooked and eatenlike asparagus. It can be blanched and rendered very tenderby simply covering. When fully known this vegetable willprove to be a valuable acquisition to our gardens and vegeta-ble markets, and no garden should be without it. Per Packet15 cents. SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS. BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1890. 15
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