. Forage plants and grasses, vegetable and flower seeds : plants, bulbs and seed potatoes. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Forage plants Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Teosinte. TEOSINTE. This gigantic Gramina is a won- der of productiveness, of sweet- ness, and of nutriment. It pro- duces a swamp of corn-like foliage through scorching heat and parching drouths. Cattle eat it ravenously, and people who have planted it, say: as a for. age or fodder plant, this is the greatest thing of the age, especially for th
. Forage plants and grasses, vegetable and flower seeds : plants, bulbs and seed potatoes. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Forage plants Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Teosinte. TEOSINTE. This gigantic Gramina is a won- der of productiveness, of sweet- ness, and of nutriment. It pro- duces a swamp of corn-like foliage through scorching heat and parching drouths. Cattle eat it ravenously, and people who have planted it, say: as a for. age or fodder plant, this is the greatest thing of the age, especially for the South. In appearance it resembles corn, but the leaves are much lon- ger, broader, and sweeter. It grows 12 feet high, producing a great number of snoots, which are thickly covered with heavy foliage. 85 stalks have been grown from one seed, and it pro- duces 40 tons to the acre. At the rate which hay and other stock feed costs, Teosinte will yield $200 worth of fodder or ensil- age to the acre. Mr. J. W. MOSENBOCKER, of Gallatin, Tenn., writes me, November 7, 1895: "The Teosinte grew about five feet high in one month and a half, about 25 stalks to the hill, I never saw anything like ; lH°May be cut two or three times during the season. The true Algerian seed, grown on the scorching plains of Algiers. Plant like corn—three pounds to the acre. Large packet, 15c; ounce, 20c.; 2 ounces, 30c.; half pound, 75c.; pound, $, by Report from Agricultural Experiment Station of Mississippi On Teosinte. " Although this has been before the public for many years, it has not yet attained the popularity it de- serves in the Southern States. It is a remarkably vigorous grower, reaching ten <»r twelve feet in height, with an unusually abundant supply of leaves and slender stems, which continue to grow until killed by frost. If cut when it reaches four or rive feet high, it makes excellent hay, and will produce a second crop fully as large. If left to grow until Sept
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