. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. A SINGLE PLANT OF TEOSINTH. TEOSINTE (Reana Luxurians). All who desire a better forage plant than anything here- tofore introduced should give Teosinte a trial. Trials so far made give promise of its soon becoming the leading forage plant for this latitude and the South. In this immediate vicinity, planted July 3d, it produced from one seed twenty- seven stalks, and attained a height of seven feet by Sep- tember loth, making a l
. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. A SINGLE PLANT OF TEOSINTH. TEOSINTE (Reana Luxurians). All who desire a better forage plant than anything here- tofore introduced should give Teosinte a trial. Trials so far made give promise of its soon becoming the leading forage plant for this latitude and the South. In this immediate vicinity, planted July 3d, it produced from one seed twenty- seven stalks, and attained a height of seven feet by Sep- tember loth, making a luxuriant growth of leaves, which the horses and cattle ate as freely as young sugar corn. In appearance this gigantic gramina of C entral America some- what resembles Indian Corn, but the leaves are much longer and broader, and the stalks contain sweeter sap. In its perfection it produces a great number of shoots, growing twelve feet high, very thiclcly covered with leaves, yielding such an abundance of forage that one plant is considered to be sufficient to feed a pair of cattle for twenty-four hours. In the South, it surpasses either Corn or Sorghum as a 40 cts. ; 3 Rs. j^, postpaid. By express, 15 cts. per pound. MILLO MAIZE, or BRANCHING DHOURA. Of South American origin, already well advertised and distributed. Valuable as a forage plant and for its grain, having great capacity to stand drought. It can be cut and fed at any stage, or cuied when heading out, for fodder. It bears grain in erect, full heads, and is almost equal to Com for feeding all sorts of stock ; also makes excellent Meal. The yield of grain will average thirty to forty bushels per acre on land that will make fifteen bushels of Corn. It re- quires all summer to mature seed. Plant in April, three to five seeds in a hill, eighteen inches apart, four to fi\e foot rows, and thin to two plants and cultivate as Corn. It shoots out greatly and makes a great amount of foliage. Price 30 cts. per ft) ; 4 lbs. fo
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