140 Richard Frotscher's Almanaa and. Garden Manual 



CELESTE OR CELESTIAL FIG. 



I have for sale about two thousand , two year old trees of this variety. 

 They have been raised from cuttings in a sandy loam ; are well rooted, 

 and raised to a single stem ; not in a number of sprouts, as is often the 

 case, when raised from suckers taken off from old trees. 



The cultivation of this fruit has rather been negleated, which should 

 not be so, as the fig is always a sure crop, with very little attention. 

 It has commenced to be an article of commerce, when preserved ; 

 shipped from here it sells quite readily North, put up in that way. The 

 above variety is the best for that purpose, not liable to sour like the 

 yellow skinned varieties, and sweeter than other dark skinned kinds. 



Price, 25c. each ; $3.00 per doz. ; $20.00 per hundred; packed and 

 delivered on steamboat, or E. E. depot. 



SOME VARIETIES OF THE SORGHUM FAMILY NOT 

 MENTIONED BEFORE. 



As a forage plant for early cutting, to be fed to stock, I do not think 

 that anything is equal to the Amber Sorghum, such as I have been 

 selling for years, imported from Kansas. After several cuttings, 

 the branching varieties of Sorghum, also called Millo Maize, may be 

 preferable, but more so for seed than forage. — The Teosinte will give 

 more fodder than any of the Sorghums. Some varieties not before des- 

 cribed and rather new here are the following : 



Yellow Millo Maize, or Yellow Branching Dhoura, grows same as 

 the White Branching kind. The only difference exists in the size of 

 the seed, which is twice the size of the white variety.— It is said to be 

 somewhat earlier, seeds planted in April will ripen seed in July. — 

 On account of its branching habit this grain should be planted in four 

 or five foot rows, and two to three feet in the drill, according to the 

 strength of the land, two plants in a hill. The cultivation is like corn. 



Price, 2oc. per lb; postage extra, 16c. per lb. by mail— 10 lbs. $2.00 

 by Express or Steamer. 



KAFFIR CORN. 



This grain was distributed in small quantities from the Georgia 

 State Department of Agriculture in 1878, and in the hands of Dr. J. II. 

 Watkins, of Palmetto, Campbell County, Ga., it has been preserved, 

 and fully developed, and was first brought to public notice through 

 him in 1885. The seed offered for sale is from his own growing, the 

 genuine and pure stock crop of 1886. 



It is a variety of Sorghum, non Saccharine, and distinctly differing 

 in habit of growth and other charav?teristics from all others of that 

 class. The plant is low, stocks perfectly erect, the foliage is wide, 

 alternating closely on either side the stalks. It does not stool from 

 the root, but branches from the top joints, producing from two to four 

 heads of Grain from each stalk. The heads are long, narrow, and 

 derfectly erect, well filled with white grain, which at maturity is 

 slightly flecked with red or reddish brown spots. Weight 60 lbs. per 

 bushel. 



