DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



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from a single seed. When the plant first comes up. the 

 stems are prostrate, but assume an upright position 

 when two feet long. Stock eat it with great avidity. In 

 the South, it can be cut three or four times, sorouti^cr 

 readily and growing rapidly after each cutting. It is 

 probably hxi.y equal to sweet torr for fodder, and • '11 

 yield n\ e times the quantity on the same ground. We 

 hope all our farmers. North and Sonth, will give it a trial. 

 It should be sown in drills, dropping about two or three 

 seeds two feet apart in the drill ; the drills should be 

 three feet apart, as plenty of room is required for its 

 growth. Tv. o pounds of seed is sufficient for an acre. 



Hungarian Grass — Panicum 

 Germanicuiti.— This is a species 

 of millet, growing less rank, with 

 smaller stalks, often yielding two 

 or three tons of haj- per acre. It 

 is very popular, and in the West- 

 em States is used extensively. 

 Like the millet, it is an annual, 

 and requires to be sown ever>' 

 season, but will produce a larger 

 return than almost any other 

 crop. Sow and cultivate like mil- 

 let. Forty-eight pounds per 

 bushel. 



Fine Mixed Lawn Grass.— 

 The essentials for a fine lawn are 

 proper drainage, a careful prepa- 

 ration of the soil, thorough roU- 

 Hungarian Grass, ing, and a selection of the seeds 

 of such grasses as will present a luxuriant verdure from 

 early spring till late in autumn ; and then frequent 

 mowings with a lawn mower. However much care is 

 bestowed on the soil and seed, no lawn will be beautiful 

 without frequent mowing and rolling. We have found 

 the Charter Oak L.\wn Mower the best for cutting 

 lawns. Too much care cannot be bestowed however on 

 the selection of grasses, as some varieties are the most 

 luxuriant in spring, others in summer, and others again 

 in autumn, and a combination of the proper sorts is re- 

 quired for a perfect, carpet-like lawn. These we can 

 supply ready mixed, in proper proportions of each. The 

 quantity sown varies according to the variety of grasses 

 from forty to sixty pounds per acre, much more being 

 required than for hay or pasturage. The seed can be 

 sown in spring or autumn. 



Flint's Extra Fine Mixed Lawn Grass, for Per- 

 manent Lav.ns. — This mixture is the result of much 

 thought and experimenting, and is undoubtedly the verj- 

 best mixture that can be obtained for permanent lawns, 

 resisting the severe droughts of our climate better than 

 any other. The mixture is composed of sixteen selected 

 grasses, and the quantity required per acre is sixty 

 pounds, sown in spring or fall. Though a little more 

 expensive at the outset, it will undoubtedly be found 

 the cheapest in the end, and it can hardly fail to please 

 the most critical. 



MISCELLANEOUS FARM SEEDS 



WINTER WHEAT. 



Much has been written throughout the country re- 

 garding Michigan Winter Wheat, and especially the 

 white varieties. We mention several of the leading ones: 



Diehl. — A white, winter variety, bald, round berr>', 

 light color, thin hull, and yielding liberally of flour. 

 Produces moderately, except on new ground. 



Clawson. — A bald, white, winter variety, and one of 

 the best yielders ; medium length berr)-, some darker 

 than Diehl, heavier hull, and liberal yielder. 



Treadwell. — A white, winter variety, long berry, 



approaching amber in color, heavy hull, and yields well 

 of flour ; verj' popular with millers. Produces moderately. 

 Fultz. — A superior amber variety, well known and 

 much esteemed in Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, 

 deny round and reddish-yellow, chaff white. This 

 variety, though not yielding so abundantly as the Claw- 

 son, is a good cropper, and is the most desirable kind 

 now known for milling purposes. 



SPRING WHEAT. 



"White Russian. — 1 nib is without doubt the best 

 variety of spring wheat in cultivation. Reports from 

 Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebra.->ka. Texas, and many other 

 wheat-growing States are unanimous in its praises. We 

 quote the description of the introducer: " The White 

 Russian Wheat is a bald, white chaflT wheat, of a much 

 lighter color than most varieties of spring wheat, and 

 has proved itself to be the best spring wheat ever grown 

 in W'isconsin. From the reports of those who tried it 

 last year, it will be seen that all were more than satis- 

 fied with the wheat. No wheat ever tried in this coun- ■ 

 trj' has received a more unanimous commendation from 

 those who tried it. The White Russian Wheat has 

 astonished all who sowed it. Such long, strong, healthy, 

 yellow straw, standing straight several days after ripen- 

 ing, and bearing large, long, white chaff heads, well 

 filled with plump kernels, weighing oftentimes from 

 sixty to sixty-two pounds to the measured bushel, while 

 the wheat produces five to ten bushels more per acre 

 than varieties once well thought of. It is believed by 

 many that as soon as the White Russian Wheat can be 

 got in sufficient quantity, it is destined to crowd out, to 

 a great extent, other varieties, and will become the sta- 

 ple spring iL'heat of the United States for a term of 

 years, until other new varieties take its place. The 

 White Russian Wheat stands well after being ripe, and 

 is not liable to lodge or rust when green ; it is decidedly 

 healthy, and has in many cases produced a full average 

 crop where other varieties alongside of it failed." 



Barley, Common. — Barley succeeds best on lands 

 more sandy and lighter than those adapted for wheat. 

 It is sown in the spring, and can be grown farther north 

 than any other grain. Unless intended for seed, it 

 should be cut before fully ripe, as it is then heavier, of 

 better quality and less liable to shell. The land should 

 alwaj's be rolled immediately after sowing ; or perhaps., 

 a better method is to roll the ground when the plants 

 are one or two inches high. The quantity of seed sown 

 per acre is about two and a half bushels, sown broad-_ 

 cast. The weight per bushel is forty-eight pounds, 

 though it is almost always sold by the loo pounds. The 

 product is from forty to sixty bushels per acre, accord- 

 ing to cultivation. 



Barley, Naked, or HuUess. — This is a peculiar 

 grain, and not generally known. The corolla is not. 

 attached to the grain, and it thus resembles wheat. It 

 is a splendid grain for all purposes for which barlfey is 

 used, and will make excellent bread when bolted and 

 ground like wheat, while the yield is much greater than 

 wheat, and fully equal to common barley. Nothing 

 can surpass this grain for grinding into meal for stock 

 as it produces from forty to sixty bushels of solid grain 

 per acre, and is a very certain crop. 



Russian White Oats.— This new variety of oats 

 has already been tested in nearly all portions of the 

 country, from Maine to California, and the reports from 

 almost all the States of the L'nion, are unanimous in its 

 commendation as the heaviest yielder in cultivation. 

 One hundred and Jifty-sez'en pounds of clean oats 

 were harvested from a single ounce of seed last season. 

 In nine-tenths of the reports the yield exceeded 500 fold 

 increase. 



