DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



be that the ground could be worked earlier in the spring, the plants would resist 

 drouth better, Avould not be injured so much by a wet season, and as a rule, 

 would double production. We have over 45 miles of tile laid on our Seed 

 Farm, near Detroit, and think thorough underdraining one of the best invest- 

 ments a gardner or farmer can make. 



's or ummm^> 



The product of one and one-fourth acres, in the case of the garden of the 

 Retreat for the Insane, at Utica, N. Y. were published by Dr. Brigham. The land 

 was good, and yearly manured, and produced as follows : 1,100 heads Lettuce, 

 large ; 1,400 heads Cabbage, large ; 700 bunches Radishes ; 250 bunches 

 Asparagus ; 300 bunches Rhubarb ; 14 bushels pods. Peas ; 40 bushels Beans ; 

 419 dozen ears Sweet Corn ; 715 dozen Summer Squash ; 45 dozen Squash 

 Peppers ; 715 dozen Cucumbers ; 7 barrels Cucumber Pickles ; 147 bushels Beets ; 

 29 bushels Carrots ; 120 bushels Onions ; 80 bushels Turnips ; 35 bushels Early 

 Potatoes ; 26 bushels Parsneps ; 35 bushels Tomatoes ; 7 wagon loads Winter 

 Squash ; 500 heads Celery — all worth in Utica market, at that time, $621, but 

 supplied 130 persons with all they could consume. Only one man was required 

 to do all the necessary labor. 



THE ITOX^LO^V^irsrC^ TABLES 



WILL BE FOUND 



L^eful to tl\e J^kfiriei', (^ai'deiief & ^irikteui* 



Table Showing the Quantity of Seed nsnally Sown upon One Acr<>. 



Barley bus. i}^ to 2 



Beans " 2 to 3 



Beets lbs. 



Broom Com .... bus. 



•Buckwheat " 3^ to 11^ 



Carrots lbs. 



Clover— Red " 10 



White " 4 



Alsike " 6 



" Lucerne, or Alfalfa " 6 



Cucumber " 



Flax bus. 1 



Grasses — Blue Grass 1 lbs. 10 



Orchard " 20 



Perennial Rye " 10 



Red Top " 7 



Timothy " 16 



Mixed Lav/n " 25 



Hungarian Grass bus. 3^ to 



Hemp " 1' to 13.^ 



Indian Corn " 1 to 2 



Millet " 1^ to 3^ 



Melon, Water lbs. 



to 15 



to 6 

 to 10 

 to 10 



to 1% 

 to 15 

 to 30 

 to 15 

 to 14 

 to 32 

 to 30 

 '4 



Rows or Drills. 



l>^to2 

 5 to 6 



i^to 14 



2 to 3 



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