
For Shallow Water and Marsh 
CORD GRASS (Spartina pectinata). Fair duck food 
and makes good cover and blinds. Plant on damp shores. 
5 ft. tall. Stands drought. Use 1500 per A. 1000, $30; 100, $4. 
NORTHERN BAMBOO (REED GRASS or CANES) 
(Phragmites) for good blinds and cover. Strong, not 
easily broken down, stands up all fall and winter, 4 to 
7 ft. high, feathery plumes. Grows on lowland and in 
water up to 2 ft. Resists waves, protects shores, when 
them Plant 1 to 2 ft. apart. ROOTS: 1000, $30; 
OTHER SHORE AND MARSH PLANTS SEE: Water Iris, 
Swamp Loosestrife (Good for Blinds), Marsh Mallow, 
page 6; False Bittersweet, page 9: Willow, page 8; 
Cat-tail, Sweet Flag, page 10 
UNDER WATER PLANTS 
Use under-water plants in fairly clear water. 
In Muddy Waters use Marsh plants or Waterlilies. 
-- plants need sunshine! Use under-water 
plants in pastures; cattle don’t bother them. 
SAGO POND PLANT 
Best Duck and Fish Food for Alkali, Slightly 
Salt. Marl or Hard Water. 
Authorities proclaim Sago Pond Plant (Pota- 
mogeton pectinatus) the best all around wild 
duck food, also the best food and shelter plants 
for fish. It is eaten by swans and over twenty 
kinds of ducks. Early in the fall it has clusters 
of seeds, the size of wheat, which are greedily 
eaten by blue-winged teal, mallards, and other 
early ducks. Later in the season, it produces 
great quantities of tubers almost equal to Wild 
Celery as Canvasback food. Carp-resistant. 
Sago Pond Plant thrives throughout the entire 
U. S. and Canada. It should be planted only in 
hard waters containing some lime. Plant the 
tubers from February lst to July 15th, in 11/2 to 
8 ft. of water, in sheltered bays on any kind of 
bottom but stony. Will spread to deeper and more 
exposed situations, grows submerged. Use 1200 
tubers per acre. Terrell sells only selected tub- 
ers - each capable of producing vigorous growth. 
1000, $20; 100, $3. 
LONG-LEAF POND PLANT (Potamogeton amer- 
icanus) Good for Ducks, Fish. For 2 to 6 ft. clear, 
fresh water, streams or lakes with outlet. Stands 
flood, drought. Bu., $5; 5 bu. (Sows 1 acre) $20. 
HORNED POND PLANT (Zannichellia). For fair- 
ly clear, fresh, brackish or slightly alkali water. 
Good for springs, and streams. Plants: Bu., $6; 
5 bu. (Sows 1/2 acre) ee. Attracts Ducks, Fish. 
