10 BROOH-COKN AND BKOOMS. 



upper leaf, while in the tall varieties it is usually raised 

 above the last leaf on a longer or shorter stalk. At pres- 

 ent it is only cultivated in limited quantities for making 

 small brooms, whisks, and brushes for dusting clothes. 

 The engraving of this variety is from the catalogue of 

 E. H. Allen & Co., N. Y. 



The Early Mohawk, from which the " Shaker" and 

 " Early York" are not essentially different, is an old and 

 still a successful variety, and though the brush turns red, 

 it is very light, and on that account esteemed by some 

 manufacturers of brooms. 



The Tennessee, or Missouri Evergreen, are by some 

 growers regarded as the same, while others think the 

 Missouri rather the coarser. It is a tall growing variety, 

 on good soil reaching 15 feet high, and at the great 

 Broom-corn localities of the West is more esteemed than 

 any other for producing a large yield of long fine brush, 

 which seldom turns red if properly harvested. It is 

 found that this, like other varieties, adapts itself to the 

 locality, and when cultivated for a few years in succession, 

 often gives more satisfactory crops than when the seed is 

 brought from a distance. 



" California Golden" is a variety offered for the first 

 time this spring ; it is said to be in every respect superior 

 to every other variety, claims which can only be sub- 

 stantiated by general culture. 



INTRODUCTION AND EXTENT OF CULTURE. 



Every one who writes on Broom-corn repeats the story 

 of its introduction by Doctor Franklin, and this treatise 

 would not be complete without it. It is said that Frank- 

 lin, happening to see an imported broom, (some say whisk 

 of corn), in the hands of a Philadelphia lady, had the 

 curiosity to examine it, and finding a single seed, (others 



