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THREE-SQUARE BULRUSH 
(Scirpus americanus) 
Very hardy throughout U. 5S. 
and Canada, in fresh, brackish, 
moderately alkaline locations. Produces abundance of 
seeds, eagerly eaten by over NINETEEN KINDS OF 
DUCKS, as well as Wild Geese. Good cover. Shove 
roots down into soil, in 4 to 12 inches wafer. Stands 
drought. ROOTS: 1000 (plants 1 acre) $22; 100, $2.75. 
GIANT BUR REED 
(Sparganium sp.) 
One of the most valuable marsh duck food and cover 
plants that thrives in every section of the country. 
Easily established in low marshy areas, moist marginal 
areas or in water up to one foot in depth. (Our Bur 
Reed grows in water up to four feet deep, but we re- 
commend starting it in shallower areas and it will grow 
into deeper water). The plants grow to 4¥2 and 5 feet 
high and have extensive root systems that prevent their 
being uprooted by carp and at the same time serve to 
prevent wave action erosion or washing of banks, levees 
and dams. These plants produce an abundance of seeds 
that come the closest in Nature to resembling “good old 
yellow corn”. This is proved by the way the birds 
“work” in a stand of it. Permanent, legal feeding bed 
for all varieties of marsh ducks. It will attract and 
hold them year after year, insuring you the finest of 
sport! Stands drought. ROOTS: 1000 (plants 1 acre) 
$20; 100, $2.75. 
PHEASANT BERRY - FALSE BITTERSWEET 
(Solanum dulcamara) 
Excellent food for wild ducks, pheasant, woodcock, 
snipe. Grows on moist or dry soil, stream banks, 
swales, bogs, watersides. Ornamental and attractive 
with purple flowers and red berries. ROOTS: 100, $15; 
25, $5; 10, $3.00. 
WAPATO DUCK POTATO 
(Sagittaria latifolia) 
Wild ducks of all kinds, and Canada Geese feed eag- 
erly on the seeds and tender tubers or “potatoes” this 
plant produces in abundance. Makes food over long 
season, until the freeze-up. Stands drought and fluct- 
vating water levels. Good muskrat food. 
EASY TO GROW — shove tubers down into marshy, 
wet soil, mud or sand, and up to 12 inches water, using 
1000 per acre. Very hardy throughout U. S. and Can- 
ada. Quick-growing. Stands drought. 
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SMARTWEEDS 
(Polygonum) 
Excellent foods for wild ducks, especially attractive 
to Pintails, Mallards, Teal, Lesser Scaup, Ring-neck 
ducks; also an attractive natural food for Wild Turkeys, 
Doves, Preasants, Grouse, Partridge and Quail. Adapt- 
ed to a wide range of conditions throughout the U. S. 
and Canada.. Withstands floods and drought. 
SOUTHERN WATER SMARTWEED 
(Polygonum sp.) 
For planting on muddy shores, and in up to one foot 
fresh, moderately acid, or mildly alkaline water. Five 
bushel plants one acre. Bushel, $5; 5 Bushel $19. 
SWAMP SMARTWEED 
(P. hydropiperoides) 
Grows on moist margins, marshes and in shallow 
fresh or moderately acid (soft) water, preferably not 
over 6 or 8 inches deep. Withstands shade. Plant 
1500 roots or plants per acre. ROOTS: 1000, $25; 300, 
$9; 100, $4.00. ; 
MARSH SMARTWEED 
(P. Muhlenbergii) 
For planting on marshy soil, shores, shallow fresh or 
mildly alkaline water. Withstands flooding and drought 
well. Plant 1500 roots per acre. ROOTS: 1000, $25; 
300, $9; 100, $3.50. 
REED GRASS (Canes) 
(Phragmites) f 
Excellent blinds, cover for wild ducks. Grows 4 fo 
7 ft. high, on lowlands, and to 2 ft. water, Plant 1200 
roots per acre. ROOTS: 1000, $23; 100, $2.50. 
PHALARIS GRASS 
Sow on banks, shores, moist lands, or well-drained 
land or in few inches water. Grows in up to 2 ft. water. 
Perennial. Excellent food for muskrats; cover for wild 
ducks. Excellent food and shelter for fish. Soil-binder 
__retards erosion and washing of shores, banks and 
dams. 6 Ibs. sows 1 acre. SEED: 6 lIbs., $7.50; $1.35 
per lb. 
WATER CRESS 
(Sysymbrium nasturtium—aquaticum) 
Mighty tasty to man or bird. Also an excellent plant 
for trout streams. Plant in shallow springs, spring 
holes or spring fed streams containing lime on mud or 
sand bottom in water 2 inches to 10 inches deep. The 
leaves of these plants may be used in sandwiches or 
salads on the table and Water Cress where waters do 
not freeze over, will feed ducks the year around. 5 
bushel plants 1 acre. PLANTS: $5 per bushel; 5 
bushel, $15. 

