. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. Golden or German Millet, A valuable fodder ])lant for all kinds of stock. It is quite (llKtiiict from all other varieties, medium early; !uii;lit, three to live feet; heads elosely condensed, spiken very numerous; eeid round ijoldeii yellow, in rou;;h, bristly sheaths. I'roduces immense crops, from thn e to si.\ tons per acre; and" its value to the farmer can hardly bo computed.
. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. Golden or German Millet, A valuable fodder ])lant for all kinds of stock. It is quite (llKtiiict from all other varieties, medium early; !uii;lit, three to live feet; heads elosely condensed, spiken very numerous; eeid round ijoldeii yellow, in rou;;h, bristly sheaths. I'roduces immense crops, from thn e to si.\ tons per acre; and" its value to the farmer can hardly bo computed. About one bushel of seed is snflieient for an acre, on good ivell-manurcd soils; one and a half buHheIg on liijhl or less fertile soils. J'rice, .'? to $ per bushel by e.\press. Hungarian (Grass) Millet. An early annual forage plant, valuable for furnishing green fodder .MUd hay in from sixty lo ninety , from the seed. Should be cut in blossom, bow three-fourths to one bushel ))er ai i i-.' Trice per bushel, § ' ' â ' â ' Kenny's Minnesota Amber Sugar-Cane. In some parts of the AVest there is at the present time a great deal of interest manifested in what is called a new Sugar-Cane. It lias not been raisi d here; but we presume it is a new bin ghum, yielding a larger per cent of sirup anil than any of the ohler sorts. .\t least it is reported as being very superior; and, if it proves to be half as valuable as some writers Htote, it must be of great value to some sections of the country. Per jMund, 75 cents; i pound, 25 cents; perpkt. 15 cents. A Manual of Vegetable Plants. This new work by I. F. TiLLiNonunsT is valuable to any cultivator, .is it teaches how to grow Vegetable Plants successfully in .any locality. Mailed, postpaid, on receipt of # Cranberry Plants. We have arranged from a reliable grower, to supply us at the following rates, viz.: â 10,000 plants by express, freight paid by purchaser, sutlieient for one acre at two feel a|)art
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