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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 pro- 
duced 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 Wampee 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 
Southern and 
roots in the soils in shallow waters. 
northern grown varieties. 
Price 100 Pickerel Plants, $12; 500 Pickerel Plants, 
$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 it 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 water’s 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 alka- 
line places. In ordering specify for salt or fresh 
waters. 
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 
100 plants here 
and there. One 
thousand roots 
will plant an acre. 
Price, Three- 
Square Rush 
Roots, 100 $4; 500 
$18; 1000 $35. 


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