OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN 
Pickerel Plant 
(Pontederia Cordata) 
A good natural wild duck food, also important as 
a cover plant for game fish, very beautiful and most 
hardy. Seed of the Pickerel Plant which are produced 
quite abundantly are eagerly sought by the wild 
ducks. Pickerel Plant is distinct in its spike of bright 
blue flowers and its lance-shaped or heart-shaped 
leaves with round bases, it resembles both the Wam- 
pee Duck Corn and Wapato Duck Potato. It grows 
best in mucky soil in shallow ponds, streams and 
marshes of fresh or slightly brackish waters. Root 
stock can be planted from March first through July 
with very good results, 500 roots will plant one acre. 
Easily planted, just set the roots in the soils in 
shallow waters. 
Price 100 Pickerel Plants, S10 
” 500 ” ” $45 
Three-Square Rush 
(Scirpus Americanus) 
Of about 150 different rushes belonging to the 
Scirpus family, the Three-Square Rush is the most 
important wild duck food. It produces a sizeable 
cluster of meaty seeds which the shallow water ducks 
are very fond of. It also makes good blinds for the 
hunter. Three-Square Rush gets y its name from the 
three-sided or triangle-shaped stock. 
The Three-Square Rush grows well on sandy soils 
on lake margins or along streams. It grows in 
marshes and firm rich soils as well as sand. Just wet 
soils at the waters edge are ideal, or in waters to one 
foot in depth, never deeper. It grows in either fresh 
water areas or in brackish or moderately alkaline 
places. 
Roots or young plants of the Three-Square Rush 
are set in the soil any time from March through July, 
just a small cluster of a 100 plants here and there. 
One thousand roots will plant an acre. 
Price, 100 Three-Square Rushes, $ 7.00 
” 500 ” ” ” 25.00 
1000 ” ” ” 45.00 
(Less Special Discount) 
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