GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 
sufficient quantity is sown, it can be cut as desired, 
furnishing a daily supply of green food until killed 
by freezing weather. Sow 5l1bs. of seed per acre in 
drill three feet apart, or sown broadcast at the rate 
of 20 to 30 pounds per acre. 
Brtitoarian Millet Uiinic: cap on 
‘rich soil, especially on low lands. It is consid- 
ered very nutritious. It is important in buying 
Millet: as well as other seeds, to get the true seed. 
. Sow in this climate from the latter pari of April to 
the end of July, at the rate ot pes to the acre. 
This belongs to the non- 
Jerusalem Corn. saccharine Sorghums. 
Grows about three feet high. Makes one large head 
on main stalk and several smaller heads on side 
shoots, often as many as eight heads on one stalk. 
The grain is pure white and nearly flat. Ten lbs. 
This Millet makes a 
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(Sorghum Halapense.) 
Johnson Grass. Perennial and has cane- 
like roots, OF more properly, underground stems, 
from the size of a goose quill to that of the li ttle 
finger. These roots are tender, and hogs are fond of 
and thrive on them in winter. Oneto one anda half 
bushels of a good sample of this seed is sufficient for 
one acre of land. The leaf, stalk and panicle of this 
grass resemble those of other sorghums. It grows 
on any land where corn will grow; and like the lat- 
ter, the better the land the heavier thecrop. On 
rich land the culms obtain a size of over half an 
inch in diameter, and a height of seven feet. It 
should be cut while tender, and then all live stock 
are fond of it, fora few weeks are enough to render 
it socoarse and hard that animals refuse it or eat 
sparingly. When once planted it cannot be eradi- 
cated. 
will plant an acre. 
= (Reana or Euchloena Luxurians). One of the 
Teosinte. most luxuriant growing forage plants intro- 
duced, of South American origin, and one which in point of 
growth and amount of nourishing foliage excels any other for- 
age plant known. In good soil and with proper cultivation it 
will throw up from 15 to 30 stalks on one plant toa height of 
from 10to12 feet, densely covered with foliage. In order to be 
successful with Teosinte, it should be sown in drills as early as 
the beginning of March, as it takes generally from 14 to 20 days 
before the seed germinates. In this mannera good stand may 
be had at the beginning of April. For green fodder Teosinte 
may becut three or four times during the season, but then it 
should not be allowed to grow any taller than three or four feet. 
In cutting itis advisableto cut it clean to the ground, as this 
will insure a heavier growth than when cut too high. Teosinte 
in its own native country is a perennial, but with us it is invari- 
ably killed during winter and may therefore be considered an 
annual. The seed, which we have on hand, is imported, asin 
our climate it will never produce any. Twopounds per acre, 
Rural Branching Sorghum or Millo 
. Produces the seed heads upright in a vertical posi- 
Maize. tion, while others are drooping. The Seep 
smaller, but wil! keep longer .than the other varieties, the stalk 
grows very large and produces a good many large leaves. It 
suckers and tillers more and more the oftener it is cut. It ex- 
ceeds greatly in yield of green fodder any of the familiar fodder 
plants except the 'Teosinte.’”? It should be planted exclusively 
in the drill four feet- apart, 18 to 20inchesin the drills. One 
peck per acre. 
z Although this grass will do well on 
Guinea Grass. rather poor sandy land, it does much 
better on richer or fertilized land. W herever it has had proper 
care the crop is enormous and satisfactory. A tropical grass 
originally from Africa, it is now grown largely in the East and 
West Indies. In Jamaica it is held next to sugar in value of 
crop, a single farmer producing five thousand dollars worth perannum of the hay. Propagated to any de- 
sired extent by rapid increase of tillers, it is esteemed in Florida and other parts of the South as a first class 
forage. Cattle eat it with avidity, green or dry. Three pounds to the acre, planted in hills same as corn. 
Flower Seeds. 
The following list of Flower Seeds is not very large, but it contains.all which are desired and which 
will do well in the Southern climate. We import them from one of the most celebrated growers in Prussia, 
and they are of the best quality. There are very few or no flower seeds raised in this country and N orthern 
houses, which publish large lists and catalogues, get them from just the same source as ourselves; but they, 
on the average, sell them much higher than we do. Some varieties, which are biennial in Europe or North, 
flower here the first season; in fact, if they do not they generally do not flower at ail, as they usually are 
destroyed by the continued long heat of summer. Some kinds grow quicker here and come to a greater per- 
tection than in a more Northern latitude. 
Flower seeds require a little more care in sowing than the vegetable seeds. The ground should be well 
pulverized and light enough not to bake after a rain. Some of the more delicate and finer varieties are better 
sown in boxes or seed pans, wherethey can be handled and protected from hard rains or cold weather, the 
other kinds do not transpiant well, and are better sown at once where they are to remain, or a few seeds 
may be sown in small pots to facilitate transplanting into the garden without disturbing the plants, when 
large enough. Some have very fine seeds, which the mere pressing of the hand or spade to the soil will 
cover; others may be covered one-fourth of an inch, according totheir size. Watering should be done care- 
fully, and if not done with a syringe, a watering pot, where the holes of the spout are very fine, should be 
used. 
By setting the plants out, or sowing the seeds in the border, consideration should be taken of the 
height’ so that the taller varieties may be in the middle and the dwarf kinds on the edge of the bed. 
Teosinte. 
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Plant Tobacco Seed for Your Own Consumption. 
