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BURBANK'S 1920 f^EW CEEATIONS IN SEEDS 
of those twin ears of popcorn, after it liad been popped out would bring quite a little money at 
Ave cents a paper bag full. It looks to me that this sorghum popcorn might help largely in reduc- 
ing the "high cost of living" — that is, if you grow it in your garden and pop it yourself. I am 
so pleased with the sunflower and tlie two varieties of corn that I am planning to send a few 
grains of each to any subscri])cr to Gleanings who will send me an addressed envelope. — Edilor 
A. I. Root. 
Rainbow Corn The leaves of this most beautiful corn are variegated with 
bright crimson, yellow, white, green, rose, and bronze stripes. 
A really wonderful decorative plant, as easily grown as any common corn and is 
fully equal in beauty to the most expensive greenhouse dracajnas. Packet, 10c; 
ounce, 30c; pound, $1. 
EsPERANCB, Australia, Api-il 11, 1919. — I was much pleased with your Rainbow Corn and have 
noticed many small col)s well filled witli whal we call maize. Every one wlio saw it growing 
and cut admired it. F. J. D. 
Improved PapagO Corn ^ corn which produces more fodder and more corn 
*^ F 5 from each Icernel than any other. A yellow, wrinkled, 
corn growing about eight feet high and bearing twelve to twenty succulent stalks 
with abundant foliage. Ten to tiuenly ears from a single kernel is usual. The best 
corn for silos and fresh green feed. Plant only one kernel lo each hill and see 
what a forest of feed results. Packet, 10c; ounce, 15c; pound, 40c; ten pounds 
or more by express, 20c per pound. 
Carlin Bay, Idaho, Aug. 10, 1919. — There is none of the Papago corn that has less tlian sixteen 
to twenty stalks from one seed. This is not considered a corn country, but that corn is doing 
line. The white seeded sunflowers are a regular forest. E. D. 
Bkrkei.ky, Cat.., Nov. 15, 1919. — Please mail me your catalogue for 1920. The Papago Corn was 
eminently satisfactory and all that was claimed for it. I am recommending to others. G. S. C. 
Improved "Quinoa" (Chenopodium quinoa) 
A Delicious New but Ancient Breakfast Food 
This annual, easily grown plant bears heavily a highly nutritious, extremely 
valuable greatly prized grain food — a small white seed produced in profusion on 
plants about four feet in height, which is harvested much like other grains. Con- 
taining as it does about four times as much gluten as the best wheat (40 per cent 
or more), proves chemically its very great nutritive value. The outer husk also 
contains about 17 per cent vegetable potash. Belonging, as "Quinoa" does, to the 
beet-spinach family, the young, tender plants make excellent greens. 
This plant has been under cultivation and close observation on my farms for 
ten years or more and has been greatly improved by selection; a more delicious 
breakfast food was never offered to America. The plants are grown with the least 
possible care, like other grains or like corn, and will produce a great weight of 
seed per acre, thirty to sixty bushels or more, but in some localities is subject to 
the attack of aphides, which, if they should happen to appear, may be readily 
exterminated by the usual sprays used for aphis. 
By sowing the seeds early around the edges of fields and gardens, or in fields 
like corn or wheat, a good supply may be raised anywhere in almost any climate. 
The seed, when dry, is prepared directly for food simply by pounding a few 
minutes in a sack to remove the outer husk, then it is rinsed and cooked two hours 
or more, and is also ground and used for bread and cakes. Everybody likes it. 
Everybody thrives on it. Everybody should raise it. 
Burbank Selection White Quinoa Seed, per packet, 20c; three, 50c; six, 80c; 
ounce, $1. 
LoviiTT, Ga., May 10, 1918. — I planted a little package of your Improved "Quinoa" seed and 
am surprised at the heavy crop produced. Believe if will more than double the crops of any of 
the cereals. The plants are simply hulca with seed heads which are now raj)idly ripening. I 
feel that the crop from the little package will give me at least lialf a bushel of clean seed. An 
acre at this rate would run from seventy lo ciglity bushels of clean seed. J. P. M. 
"One of the new foods is a species of pigweed, wliich by cultivation has liecome a valuable 
seed plant, much prized by the Ineas as a food staple. The seed of tliis plant is said to be fully 
equal to oatmeal in nutriment, in which case it should be a most valuable acquisition." — "Good 
lieallh" Mayiixinc. 
Quinoa Bolivian Red fhis variety has not been under careful selection 
on my farms long enough lo become as early and 
])rodiir[ive as my Improved While, which I'ipens even in Norway and Sweden. 
It will, however, prove of value in the Southern and Western states. Seed from 
earliest and most productive plants: Packet, 20c; three, 50c; ounce, 75c, 
