DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



Canary, Hemp, Millet, Maw, Rape, Cuttle Bone. — We are pre- 

 pared to furnish the trade with any or all of the above, either clear or mixed. 

 We also put them up in one pound and one-half pound packages, ready for the 

 retailer, which we sell at the usual discount to the trade. 



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Large Red ClOTer — Trifolium Pratense. — This invaluable plant 

 may justly be placed at the head of the list. By its judicious use, lands which 

 have been exhausted by too severe a course of cropping, may be brought back 

 to their pristine fertility, and fresher and unexhausted fields preserv'^ed in undi- 

 minished vigor. This variety grows five or six feet high, and is used almost 

 exclusively for plowing under for manure. Its stalks are so coarse and large 

 that stock will eat only the leaves. 



Medium Red Clover — Trifolium Pratense. — This is the kind grown 

 for fodder, and is also excellent for the land. It succeeds on any soil of moder- 

 ate fertility, if sufficiently dry ; may be sown in the Fall or early in the Spring, 

 on the snow, just before its disappearance, by which the seed is distributed with 

 regularity, and carried down into the crevices of the soil. A dressing of gypsum 

 will immensely increase the Clover crop. From ten to twelve pounds of good 

 seed is required for an acre, more being necessary on old or stiff soils, than on 

 new and lighter ones. 



White Dutch Clover. — Trifolium Repens. — An excellent pasture 

 grass, forming, in conjunction with Blue Grass, the finest and most nutritious 

 food for sheep and cows. It succeeds on all rich, clay lands, if not too wet. 

 Sow from six to ten pounds per acre. 



Alsike, or Swedish. — Trifolium Hybrida. — This valuable variety is 

 comparatively new, but is fast gaining great popularity. It is the 

 inost hardy of all the varieties, perennial, and absolutely refuses to winter- 

 kill ; is alike capable of resisting the extremes of drought and wet. The roots 

 are fibrous and heads globular, resembling more the Wliite than the Red Clover, 

 except in size, and may be described as a giant White Clover, with flesh-coloi-ed 

 heads. It affords a large return in hay, is excellent for soiling, and for bees, 

 is unsurpassed. Is also especially adapted for sowing on lands that are con- 

 sidered clover sick. Sow in the Spring or Fall, at the rate of six to ten pounds 

 per acre. 



Lucerne, or Alfalfa. — Medicago Sativa. — This variety is of French 

 origin, and is used mostly for soiling purposes. Sow ten pounds per acre in the 

 Spring. 



Sweet Yernal Grass. — Anthoxanthum Odoratum. — An invaluable 



