. Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits. Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; Fruit trees. 1833 BY TEDsiNfe Tobacco, Persian J| Muscateile Teosinte. As a forage or fodder plant this is the greatest thing of the age, especially for the South. In appearance it re- sembles corn, but the leaves are much longer and broader and sweeter. It grows twelve feet high produ
. Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits. Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; Fruit trees. 1833 BY TEDsiNfe Tobacco, Persian J| Muscateile Teosinte. As a forage or fodder plant this is the greatest thing of the age, especially for the South. In appearance it re- sembles corn, but the leaves are much longer and broader and sweeter. It grows twelve feet high producing a great number of shoots, which are thickly covered with heavy foliage. 85 stalks have been grown from one seed, and it produces forty tons to the acre. At the rate hay and other stock feed costs, Teo- sinte will yield $200 worth of fodder or ensilage to the acre. Plant it as you would corn, W. J. Pitts, of Stockton, writes: "I cut two 2-horse loads of forage from an ounce of seed.'1 It may be cut two or three times during the season. It never suffers in drought or rain. Three pounds of seed is enough for an acre. Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; lb., $; PERSIA*4 MUSCAT^. This is the best of all, an exceedingly orna- mentalplan t and so early that it can be grown in any State. It is from the garden of the King of Persia. The grower says of it: " It is one of the earliest varieties we have, of remarkably strong and vigorous growth, attaining the height of five to seven feet. The stalks are strong, thickly set with leaves, many of them measuring 3^ to 4^ feet in length with propor- tionate width. The leaves are usually small ribbed, very elastic, of finest possible textnre, and when properly cured of a light brown color and of mild ; Pkt., 10c; oz., 50c; $ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perf
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