. Dreer's 1901 garden calendar. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. llfHRrADmrittHAKtPrilAMra^ RELIABLE FARM SEEDS 53 BUCKWHEAT. Sow about the middle of June, broadcast, from 2 to 3 pecks per a-cre. Japanese. This superior variety is earlier and more prolific and yields double the weight per acre of other sorts. The grains are nearly twice as large as those of Silver Hull, and of fine color. This variety is always in demand, the millers preferring it to all other sorts, as it
. Dreer's 1901 garden calendar. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. llfHRrADmrittHAKtPrilAMra^ RELIABLE FARM SEEDS 53 BUCKWHEAT. Sow about the middle of June, broadcast, from 2 to 3 pecks per a-cre. Japanese. This superior variety is earlier and more prolific and yields double the weight per acre of other sorts. The grains are nearly twice as large as those of Silver Hull, and of fine color. This variety is always in demand, the millers preferring it to all other sorts, as it makes the finest flour. Peck, 50 cts.; bu. _(48 lbs), $ Silver [lull. Flour whiter and more nutritious than the common Buckwheat. The graiHs, however, are smaller than those of the Japanese, and the variety is,' therefore, not in as great demand. Peck, 50 cts ; bu., § Wild Kice [Zizania Aquaticd). The Zizania is valuable as a forage plant on inundated lands and along the shores of marshes. As an attraction for wild fowls it is invaluable. The seed should be sown in khe fall in 6 inches to 6 feet of water, having soft mud bottom where there are few weeds. Lb., 25 cts.; by mail, 33 cts ; 10 lbs. or more at 20 cts. per lb. Sunflower, Maniniotll Kussian. May be grown to great advantage in waste ground. An excellent and cheap food for fowls. All farmers should plant this, if only for feeding chickens. It is enormously productive of seed, as the heads grow to a large size, sometimes as much as 18 inches in diameter, and are full of seed. It can be planted any time from early spring un- til about the end of June. Plant 4 quarts to acre. Qt., 10 cts.; by mail, 17 cts.; peck, 60 cts.; bu. (25 lbs), §; 100 lbs,, $6 00. White Branching- Dhoura {IVhite Millo ALiize). A valuable forage plant. Will thrive even when corn is sufifering from drought. Use 4 to 5 pounds to acre. Lb., 10 cts.; by mail, 18 cts.; 10 lbs., 75 cts.; bu., $; 100 lbs., $ Broom ('oru
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