. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. For the Farm and Garden. NEW FORAGE PLANTS. EGYPTIAN, EAST INDIAN, OR PEARL. MILlLET (PenciUaria mcata). This new 3
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. For the Farm and Garden. NEW FORAGE PLANTS. EGYPTIAN, EAST INDIAN, OR PEARL. MILlLET (PenciUaria mcata). This new 3rillet is quite distinct from all other species, and is without doubt destined to take a place in the front rank of valuable forage phmts. Sown in light sandy soil, the plants at first appear feeble, resembling broom corn ; but when a few inches above ground they begin to tiller, and new shoots appear very rapidly from the original root, until they number a half dozen to a dozen or more. The stems at first are nearly prostrate, but when about two feet long they begin to assume an upright position, reach- ing a height of eight to ten feet, not differing in color or substance from our common Indian corn. In fact, it is one of the most " leafy" plants we have ever met in the great f amil}' to which it belongs. When the stems have reached nearly their full height, the seed or flower spikes appear at the summit. ^As soon as the first or principal flower spike appears, the stems throw out lateral branches from every joint, these in turn producing leaves and flower spikes. When cultivated for fodder, the seed should be dropped in drills and given plenty of room on account of the peculiar habit of tillering: the fodder is in the best •condition for cutting and curing when the stalks are five or six feet high; but, if used for soiling, it might be cut earlier or later, at the convenience of the cultivator: the stumps, sprouting and throwing up a new growth, con- tinue to gro
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