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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_8 (find matches)
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; Fruit trees
Publisher: Floral Park, N. Y. : John Lewis Childs
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Wonder Forage Plaint. Most productive hay or fodder plant known. Grows 12 to 14 feet high and ripens a heavy crop of seed in 100 days from sowing. It eau be mown down when it reaches 5 or 6 feet for hay, and will grow up again so quickly that 3 to 5 mow- ings are secured in a season. One pound of seed covers an acre sown broadcast, or in drills 12 to 18 inches apart, drop- ping seed 6 inches apart. The broad dark green leaves closely resembles corn and surpasses in nutritive value any other forage plant. It is greatly relished by all kinds of stock, either green or cured. For seed purposes plant 3 feet apart each way and cultivate. There will be 40 stalks to each plant and 20 seed heads which are from 12 to 24 inches long and covered with seed. Besidesa heavy crop of fodder it will yield 3.000 pounds of seed per acre unequalled for poultry food and will ripen in any latitude that will ripen corn. Pkt.. 10c.; 3 pkt.. 25.: lb., $3.50. Tcosi^te. As a forage or fodder plant this is the great thing for the South. In appearance it resembles corn, but the leaves are much longer and broader and sweeter. It grows twelve feet high, producing a number of shoots, which are thickly cover- ed with heavy foliage. Eighty-five stalks have been grown from one seed, and it produces forty tons to the acre. At the rate hay and other stock feed costs. Teosinte will yield $200 worth of fodder or ensilage to the acre. Plant it as you would corn. W. J. Pitts, of Stockton, Ga.. writes: " I cut two two- horse loads of forage from an ounee of seed." It may be cut two or three times during the season. It never suffers in drouth or rain. Three pounds of seed is enough for an acre. Pkt., 10c,; oz.. 15c.; lb., $1.50.
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NeW Field Qovrt , IVory Monarch. We are pleased to Introduce this glorious new white Coi n, it being a fitting companion to our now world famous Golden Superb. It is even a little earlier than Golden Superb, therefore the earliest and by all odds the finest white dent variety. Ears long and slender, cob small, kernels very large and ivory white in color. Makes a most beautiful ear and is enormously prolific. We first discovered this Corn in pos- session of a farmer on the Eastern end of Long Island. He had grown it for 25 years, having received it from another farmer who had grown it a long time. It has never been introduced, though those who have grown it grow no other, considering this to be the best of all field corns. It is sure to become as famous as Golden Superb. Pkt., 10c.: lb., 40c.; 2 lbs.. 75c. postpaid. By express or freight, peck, $2,00: bushel, $6.oo. F. O. Tenny, Pa., Sept. 6th, writes : "The Golden Su- perb Corn I purchased of you is a wonder. I planted twenty aeres of it and it is a sight to look at. It is nearly ready to cut, and I think without doubt it will yield 100 bushels per acre. Old farmers say they never saw the like. As a gener- al thing this year fodder is awfully tall, but mine is not. It is about ten feet, while most all other is from twelve to fif- teen feet and not eared like mine." The only variety that can beat this is the Ivory Monarch.

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