CATALOGUE OF GRASS SEEDS. 
4'J 
NOTE. 
It will be noticed that the different tables are all based on the quantity required to sow one acre, so in. 
ordering, our patrons will please state the number of acres for which the seed is desired. We shall, unless 
we are especially instructed to the contrary, put up each variety of seed in separate packages, packing the 
entire quantity necessary for one acre in a case. We recommend our friends to always buy their mixtures 
put up as above, and to refuse to receive them in any other shape. The advantage of buying the seed 
before it is mixed is very apparent, as it insures the purchaser obtaining the exact varieties and quantities 
which should compose the mixture he has ordered. This protection cannot be enjoyed where the seed is 
mixed before it is sent out. 
PRICES FOR JOSEPH BRECK & SONS’ SPECIAL MIXTURES FOR PERMANENT PASTURES 
AND MOWING AND GRAZING LANDS. 
When ordering, simply give number and kind of mixture selected and the number of acres for which 
seed is desired ; for example : “ Send me No. 2 Mixture for Permanent Pastures for three acres.” 
PERMANENT 
PASTURES. 
For Light Soils. 
For Medium Soils. 
For Heavy Soils. 
For Shady Places. 
n 0 . 1 . 
Price Per Acie. 
$10.00. 
No. 2. 
Price per Acre. 
$10.00. 
No. :t. 
Price per Acre. 
$9.50. 
No 4. 
Price Per Acre. 
$9.50. 
ALTERNATE HUSBANDRY. 
For 1 or 
2 Years’ Mowing. 
For 2 or 3 Years’ Mowing or 
Grazing. 
For 3 or 4 Years’ Mowing or 
Grazing. 
Permanent Mowing with Occa¬ 
sional Grazing. 
No. .">. 
Light 
Soils. 
Price per 
Acre. 
$ 5 -°°. 
No. O. 
Medium 
Soils. 
Price per 
Acre. 
S5.OO. 
No. 7. 
Heavy 
Soils. 
Price per 
Acre. 
$6.00. 
No. 8. 
Light 
Soils. 
Price per 
Acre. 
$6.00. 
No. 9 
Medium 
Soils. 
Price per 
Acre. 
$8.50. 
No. IO. 
Heavy 
Soils. 
Price per 
Acre. 
$8.50. 
No. 1 i. 
Light 
Soils. 
Price per 
Acre. 
$8.00. 
No. 12. 
Medium 
Soils. 
Price per 
Acre. 
$ 9 - 50 ■ 
No. 1:1. 
Heavy 
Soils. 
Price per 
Acre. 
$10.00. 
No. 14. 
Light 
Soils. 
Price per 
Acre. 
$10.00. 
No. 15. 
Medium 
Soils. 
Price per 
Acre. 
$11 .OO. 
No. Ml. 
11 eavy 
Soils. 
Price per 
Acre. 
$11.50. 
Special prices for quantities for ten acres and upwards. 
While it is true that the mixtures which we have recommended are seemingly much more expen¬ 
sive than what is commonly used, it should be borne in mind that a vastly increased value is given to the 
pasture not only for one year, but if the land is properly cared for it will remain in good condition for fifteen 
or twenty years without further sowing, and produce double the amount of fodder, while the ordinary 
sowing has to be repeated every three or four years; thus, in the end, costing more than four times as 
much as what would be paid*originally for the proper mixture. 
Caution. — A ppreciating the fact that unscrupulous parties will probably offer mixtures for permanent 
pastures, mowing lands, and alternate husbandry, purporting to be the same as ours, we shall, as a matter 
of protection to both our patrons and ourselves, stencil or print 011 each case, and also on package contain¬ 
ing each variety of seed, our name and address, and request our patrons before purchasing from any other 
source than ourselves direct, that they examine the case containing same, and if not stenciled as described 
they may know that IT is not our mixture, and therefore not in any way entitled to our endorsement. 
PRICES 
Subject to Market changes. 
OF AGRICULTURAL GRASSES 
AND CLOVERS. 
Special Quotations on Application. 
KIND. 
Pri ce¬ 
pe r 
lb. 
Price 
per 
bush. 
KIND. 
R. I. Bent 
Agrostis canina 
$0.25 
$2.25 
Timothy 
Phleum prateuse 
Red Top Chaff Seed 
A gross's vulgaris 
.IO 
.80 
Wood Meadow 
Poa n cm oralis 
Red Top Fancy Clean 
.14 
5.00 
Blue Grass (fancy) 
Poa pratensis 
Meadow Foxtail 
Alopecuris pratensis 
•35 2.50 
Fowl Meadow 
Poa serotina 
Sweet Vernal [true] 
A nt/ioxaut/ium odoratum 
.40 
4-25 
Rough Stalked Meadow Poa trivial is 
Yellow Oat Grass 
A vena flavescens 
• 7 «! 6-75 
Tall Meadow Oat 
Arrhenatherum avniceum 
Crested Dogstail 
Cynosurus cristdtus 
.^0 8.00 
Hungarian Millet Grass Sefaria geritianica 
Orchard Grass 
Dactylis glome rata 
•17 
2.25 
Common Millet 
Pa n ieu rn Miliaeeu m 
Hard Fescue 
Festuca duriuscula 
.15 
2.00 
Golden Millet 
Panicum Miliac cum var. 
Tall Fescue 
Festuca cl atior 
•30 
5.00 
Red Clover 
Trifolium prateuse 
Sheep’s Fescue 
Festuca ovina 
•15 
1.80 
Mammoth Red Clover Trifolium prate use var. 
Red Fescue 
Festuca rubra 
.20 
2.50 
White Clover 
Trifolium repens 
Meadow Fescue 
Festuca pratensis 
.20 
3-25 
Alsike Clover 
Trifolium hybridum 
Italian Rye Grass 
Lolium Italicum 
.10 
1.80 
Lucerne, or Alfalfa 
Medicago sativa 
Pe'ennial Rye Grass 
Lolium perenne 
.09 
2.00 
Crimson Clover 
T rifolin m inea rna tu m 
Price 
Price 
per 
per 
lb. 
hush. 
$°-°5 
$ 2.00 
.40 
7.00 
•IS 
2.00 
•25 
2.25 
.40 
8.00 
•30 
5-25 
•03 
I IO 
•03 
1.10 
•03 
1.40 
•13 
.14 
.20 
.22 
.20 
.12 
“ SATISFACTION.” 
“ The Lawn Grass Seed furnished by you on my orders of May and June, 1896, has given such satisfaction and our lawn 
has been so much admired that I am commissioned by the Granby Amateur Athletic Association, of which I am Vice -President 
to negotiate with you for sufficient seed to thoroughly sow an area of 140,000 square feet, which will be used when finished as a’ 
cricket and lacrosse ground.” 
The above is an extract from a letter sent us Oct. 4, 1897, by H. L. GULT.INE, Granby, P. Q., Canada. 
See Special Offers on third page of cover. 
