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Miscellaneous Agricultural Seeds 



If wanted by mail, postage must be added according to parcel post zone rates printed on the second page oF cover 



ARTICHOKES, JERUSALEM. Strong 

 tubers. A hardy perennial, forming roots 

 like a Potato, making excellent feed for 

 stock, especially for hogs. 25c. quart, $1.25 

 peck, $4.00 bushel. 



AUSTRALIAN SALT BUSH. {Atriplex 

 semihaccatum) . A valuable forage plant 

 recently introduced and highly recorn- 

 mended for growing on alkaU soils and in 

 sections subject to protracted droughts. 

 Experiments have proven that it will grow 

 on soils where nothing else will grow. It is 

 nutritious and readily eaten by all kinds of 

 live stock. One pound of seed is sufficient 

 for an acre. The best plan is to sow the 

 seed in well-prepared garden soil and the 

 seedlings when two or three inches high, 

 planted six or eight feet apart. 15c. oz., 

 $1.25 lb., 10-lb. lots, $1.15 lb. 



BURLINGAME MEDIUM BEAN. A 

 little smaller in the grain than the ordinary 

 medium Beans, but is whiter and far hand- 

 somer in appearance. {Crop failed.) 



IMPROVED RED KIDNEY BEAN. 



Much more prolific than the ordinary 

 Red Kidney. (Crop failed.) 



WHITE MARROW or NAVY BEAN. 

 The variety so extensively grown for sale 

 in the dry state. {Crop failed.) 



BOSTON SMALL PEA BEAN. A desir- 

 able variety to grow, being early, hardy 

 and proHfic. {Crop failed.) 



VELVET BEAN {Muciina utilis). 



Fully described on page 36. 



BEGGAR WEED {Desmodium tor- 

 tuosum). A leguminous annual plant 

 growing, according to soils and condi- 

 tions, 3 to 7 feet high. It is highly es- 

 teemed where known in our Southern 

 states as a forage and soil renovating 

 crop, particularly on light, sandy land. 

 Where sown early it yields two crops of 

 hay in a season, and often in land too 

 poor to grow almost any other crop it 

 has produced 3 to 5 tons of cured hay per 

 acre. As a forage and pasture crop, the 

 feed is relished by stock, and it is highly 

 nutritious, comparing favorably with that 

 of Red Clover and Cow Peas. If cut 

 when about 2 feet high, the plants again 

 stool out from the bottom, thus produc- 

 ing successive crops. It is an excellent 

 crop to turn under as green manure. 

 Sow broadcast 10 to 12 lbs. per acre. 

 Price, 20c., \i, lb.; 75c. lb. 



FIELD 'LUPINS. May be sown from 

 April to July, and succeed well on the 

 poorest soil; are particularly valuable 

 for plowing under on poor, sandy soils. 

 18c. lb., $14.00 per 100 lbs. 



SUNFLOWER, MAMMOTH RUSSIAN. 

 Highly valued as an excellent and cheap 

 food for fowl. It is the best Egg-Produc- 

 ing Food known. It can be raised cheap- 

 er than Corn. Four quarts of seed will 

 plant one acre. 15c. lb.,$12.00per 100 lbs. 



FLAX SEED. Price variable. 



SPRING VETCHES, or TARES. ( Vicia 

 saliva). A species of the Pea, grown for 

 stock, and often mixed with Oats for soil- 

 ing. Sown broadcast at the rate of two 

 to three bushels per acre. 12c. lb., $5.00 

 bush, of 60 lbs., 10-bush. lots, $4.90 bush. 



SAINFOIN (Onobrychis sativa). An ex- 

 cellent fodder plant, particularly for light, 

 dry, sandy, gravelly, limestone or chalky soils. 

 15c. lb., $12.00 per 100 IbSo 



SAND OR WINTER VETCH ( Vicia villosa ) . 

 See page 37. 



SEEDS OF HIGH 

 GRADE TOBACCO 



ONE OUNCE WILL SOW 50 SQUARE YARDS 



Tobacco is an annual in the United States 

 although perennial in the tropics. Botan- 

 ically it is related to the Tomato and Egg- 

 plant, and therefore sensitive to frost. 

 Still it is successfully cultivated as far north 

 as Canada, as it requires but a short season 

 to grow to maturity. The quality of the 

 product depends almost entirely upon 

 the nature of the soil and cHmate, and 

 highly congenial soils may exist in any 

 section. The suitability of soils in Ccvn- 

 necticut, now a great centre of Tobacco 

 production, was only discovered by ex- 

 perimentation. 



Below we offer some of the new and 

 improved varieties as well as standard sorts. 



PRIMUS. The earliest of all; succeeds 

 well even as far north as Canada. 10c. 

 pkt., 25c. oz., 80c. H lb. 



ZIMMER'S SPANISH. The earliest and 

 best American-Spanish, and a favorite cigar 

 variety, increasing in demand and culture 

 every year. 10c. pkt., 30c. oz., $1.00 ]i lb. 



HAVANA, IMPORTED. 10c. pkt., 60c. 

 oz., $2.00 Ulb. 



HAVANA, DOMESTIC. 10c. pkt., 30c. 

 oz., $1.00 li lb. 



SUMATRA, DOMESTIC. 10c. pkt,, 60c. 

 oz., $2.00 li lb. 



CONNECTICUT. 10c. pkt., 25c. oz., 

 80c. U lb. 



KENTUCKY. 10c. pkt., 25c. oz., 80c. 

 li lb. 



VIRGINIA. 10c. pkt., 25c. oz., 80c. H lb. 



GRANVILLE COUNTY YELLOW. A 

 favorite with many planters, selling from 

 thirty to fifty dollars per hundred pounds. 

 10c. pkt., 50c. oz., $1.25 M lb. 



HESTER. Has no superior as a yellow 

 type and makes fine cigar stock. Its 

 greatest recommendation is that it will 

 adapt itself to a wider range of soil and 

 climate than any other yellow variety. 

 10c. pkt., 50c. oz., $1.25 3^ lb. 



CHOICE HAVANA. A very superior 

 Americanized Havana variety. The best 

 of cigar stock. 10c. pkt., 60c. oz., $2.00 

 Jilb. 



IMPROVED CONNECTICUT SEED 

 LEAF. A new Connecticut Havana sort 

 of good width and length. The leaves 

 not being so close together as on the old 

 variety, it ripens more uniformly. Excellent 

 for cigars. 10c. pkt., 60c. oz., $2.00 H lb. 



EVANS or CINNAMON SCENTED. 

 This is a Canadian Tobacco very much used 

 in that country. Makes fine pipe Tobacco, 

 as it has a fine cinnamon flavor. 10c. 

 pkt., 50c. oz., $1.25 li lb. 



WILD RICE {Zizania aquatica). As 

 an attraction for wild fowl it cannot be 

 equalled, and as seed is not successful we 

 recommend plants, which should be set 

 out in spring in shallow water having a 

 mud bottom. Seeding plants mailed in 

 May @ $1.00 per doz.; $7.00 per 100. 



'Tobacco Leaf"— Tobacco Culture made plain — by Killibrew and Myrick. Postpaid, $2.00. 



