VARIETIES OF SORGHOI CULTIVATED IX THE UNITED STATES. 75 

 Fi'Iaiive Lengths and Weights, etc. — Continued. 



Name. 



Gray Top 



Lilieriari 



Lilierian 



Oomseeana 



Snmac 



JIastodon 



Imphee 



JCi'W Variety 



.Sumac 



Honduras 



Honey Cane 



Sprantrle Top 



Honduras 



Honey Top or Texas. 



Honduras 



Sugarcane 



Hybrid 



SiisarCane ...'.. 



Bear Tail >.. 



Iowa Red Top. 



>'e\v Variety 



^V. India Susrar Cane 



White African 



Toose Neck 



White Imphee 



Hybrid, -\o 4 



Sugar fane 



New Variety 

 Min'sota Early. Amber 

 Holcus Saech'aratus 

 Holcus Sorghum 

 Hoh-us Cernus, white. 



Honey Cane. 



New Variety 

 Chinese Imphee 



New Variety 



Standard, No. 2. 

 New Varietv 



Sorp.CE OF Seed. 



H. C. Sealey. Columbia. Tenn 



Blymyer ct Co., Cincinnati, Ohio 



W. II. Lytle, Yellow Springs, Ohio 



W. I. Mayes tt Co.. Sweet Water, Tenn. . 



W. Pope, .Tones Switch, Ala 



1). W. .\iken, Cokesburv, S. C 



D. W. .\iken. Cokesl)urv. S. C 



J. W. H. -alle, Stratlord". Mo 



J. H. Wighton. Moi iit Olive, Ala . 



Arsenal. Washington, 1). C 



J. H. Clark, Pleasant Hill, La 



W. I'ope, .Jones Switch, .\la 



E. Link, Greeueville, Tenn 



. Brussels. Mo 



L. Bran<le, Maversville, Texas 



C. E. Miller, Effingham. Ill 



.1. C. Moore. San Hiego. Cal 



E. Link, (Jreeneville. Tenn 



.Taeob Latshaw, tedarville. Ill 



Jacob Latshaw. I'edarville, 111 



F. W. .'^turap. Marshall, 111 



I). C. Snow, Lamoiie. Iowa 



John N. Barger. Lovilia, Iowa 



G N. (iibsotj, Shelbyville, Ky .. . 



John N. Barser. Lovilia. Iowa 



Will N. Wallis. Collin County, Texas 



John N. Barger. Ixivilia. Iowa 



Jolm X. Barker, Lovilia, low'a 



Vilmorin, Paris 



Vilmorin, Paris 



A'ilmorin. Paris 



Vilmorin. Paris 



J. H. Clark. Pleasant Hill. La 



I). B. Bradford. Elizabeth City, N. C . 



W. A. Sanders, Sanders. Cal " 



Kiehard Haswell, .\rmstrong Grove. la. 



Isaac O. Harrell, Greeneville, Tenn. 



Hampden Sidney Coll, Va 



Feet. 

 7.4i;»: 

 8 61 

 8 29 I 

 8.11 ; 

 8.70 , 

 U 33 ' 

 8 84 I 

 « 3S I 

 8 68 

 10 09 

 n 35 

 11.07 

 U 60 

 11.48 

 11.76 



6 82 



8 05 ; 



9 29 



5 0() I 

 8 .^9 



8 .^4 



7 89 



7 "irt 



8 19 



7 50 



8 79 



6 65 

 5 73 



7 30 

 7 88 



7 69 



8 26 

 10 23 



Lbf. 



1 661 



2 370 

 2 \r,4 

 2 3.3' 

 2 17 

 2 612 

 2 05' 



1 786 



2 Wl 



1 633 



2 771 

 2 37S 

 2 5!:- 

 2 .^17 

 2 579 

 1 089 

 I .^9 

 1 700 

 1 3>S3 

 1 :?29 



1 :-:09 



2 107 



\.A-:U 



1 ,s.V_> 



J 309 



1 410 



1 324 



1 lS-1 



I 441 



1 9:t; 



1 0.3fif 



1 8.-.5 



2 193 



Lbs. 

 1 189 

 1 807 

 1 803 

 1 7-29 

 1 6:« 

 1 '.>28 

 1 543 

 1 200 

 1 5-28 



1 269 



2 289 



1 854 



2 143 

 2 181 

 2 079 



731 



1 262 

 1 .^31 

 1 055 

 1 009 

 1 037 

 1 6.53 

 1 015 

 1 ;::?5 



911 



1 0(>5 

 971 



884 



1 097 

 722 



746 



1 2-15 

 1 765 

 1 -2.50 

 1 128 

 1 040 

 1 488 

 800 



In the above list, sixteen States are represented as furnishing seed ; 

 and four varieties were obtained from France, among wliich is our 

 own Early Amber, which ah'eady appears to be grown there from seed 

 imported from America. Although, some thirty years since, we ob- 

 tained our Chinese varieties of sorghum from France, and having, at 

 the present time, many of them extensively cultivated in the United 

 States, nearly all, if not every variety, of these Chinese sorghums seem 

 to have disappeared from France, since the large house of Vilmorin 

 & Co. were unable to send even a single specimen. 



The local names of the above mentioned varieties (as, for example. 

 West India sugar-cane\ must not be confounded with the real .-u;jar- 

 cane of Cuba and Louisiana ; for the so-called sugar-canes, represented 



