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HARD STEM BULRUSH 
(Scirpus acutus) 
The Hard Stem Bulrush is excellent for Wild 
Ducks, it provides food and cover. It is the most 
important of Round Stem Bulrushes as a wild duck 
food. Also ideal for borders of fish ponds, provid- 
ing good cover for game fish. Muskrat not only 
feed upon its roots, but also build their houses of 
its stems. 
This species of bulrush is very hardy, it will grow 
in either wet soils or shallow waters to three feet in 
depth. It thrives in either a sandy soil or a rich 
mud bottom, from the Gulf of Mexico to Hudson 
Bay. Either fresh, acid, alkaline or brackish waters 
are suitable. 
Due to the stout stem and sturdy root system, the 
Hard Stem Bulrush will break wave action, thus 
prevening erosion, Wild ducks love to huddle 
among the tall growth because of the quiet waters 
it commands. Here they find food as well as pro- 
tection from raw weather on cool Fall mornings, 
feasting upon the many seeds that it produces. 
The root stocks of the Hard Stem Bulrush can 
be planted during Fall or Spring. Southern orders 
will come direct from our Southern nurseries, for 
Northern waters we will ship from Wisconsin. 
To plant the Hard Stem Bulrush simply set the 
root stocks in wet soils or shallow waters. They 
will send out running roots which will multiply and 
reproduce. They are indestructible by carp due to 
the fiberous roots. Two hundred fifty rootstocks will 
start a quarter acre bed. 
PRICE 
Hard Stem Bulrush Rootstocks 
$5.00 per 100, $10.00 per 250, $40.00 per 1,000 
rootstocks. 





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