. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. BURPEE'S FARM SEEDS. 103. A SINGLE PLANT OF TEOSINTE. 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 Se
. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. BURPEE'S FARM SEEDS. 103. A SINGLE PLANT OF TEOSINTE. 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 Central 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 thickly 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 soiling or fodder-plant, and in the extreme South it is a perennial. Eighty-five stalks have been grown from one seed, attaining a height of eleven feet. Price of seed : Per pkt. 10 cts. ; oz. 20 cts.; ft) 60 cts. ; per ft) $ W. T. Carpenter, Polk County, Fla., Oct. 8th, 1888, writes :—Three years ago I purchased of you a package of Teosinte seed, from which I now have a crop of about 18 acres that is doing very well. I have noticed a good deal said about this plant as a stock feeder, in the public prints lately, and do not think it has been overrated, either in value as a stock feed or in its great yield. I think that this plant will soon take a very high position as a stock feeder through- out our countr>-. In Florida it is the healthiest plant that I have ever grown, very easily managed, t
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