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Title: General list of high-grade seeds
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Germain Seed and Plant Company Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs Fruit trees Catalogs Greenhouse plants Catalogs Poultry Equipment and supplies Catalogs Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Germain Seed & Plant Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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excellent cattle food, good for greenmanuring. Sow 8 to 10 lbs. to the acre. Lb.15 cts., 100 lbs. $8. Soja Beans. A substitute for coffee; a forageplant and a soil-improver—30 lbs. plants anacre. Lb. 10 cts., 100 lbs. $7.50. Sorghum, Early Amber. Rich in fattening mat-ter. Lb. 10 cts., 100 lbs. $4. Sorghum, Early Orange. Similar to above. Lb.10 cts., 100 lbs. $4. Sunflower Mammoth Russian. Lb. 10 cts., 100lbs. market price. Speltz, or Emmer. A valuable substitute foroats and barley. It outyields oats, barley,wheat, etc., in bushels per acre and is superiorto oats and barley for feed. Lb. 10 cts., 100lbs. $5. Teosinte (Reana luxurians). Resembles corn,but leaves are much larger; very nutritious.Oz. 15 cts., lb. 75 cts. Jerusalem Artichoke Roots. An excellent hogfood, said to prevent cholera; produces enor-mous crops. Cultivate same as potatoes.Price on application. Buckwheat, Common. Buckwheat should be sown broadcast, at the rate of about 45 lbs.to the acre. Lb. 5 cts., 100 lbs $5.
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JERUSALEM CORN. Write for Special Quotations on Large Quantities. 26 Germain Seed Company, 326-330 South Main St., Los Angeles, Cal. MISCELLANEOUS FODDER PLANTS, Cont. Buckwheat, Silver Hull. Excellent for bees.Lb. 10 cts., 100 lbs. $6. Buckwheat, Japanese. A distinct variety, withgrains nearly twice as large as those of thecommon kind. It is a very heavy cropperand more likely to blight than the othervarieties. Lb. 10 cts., 100 lbs. $6. Castor Beans. Much used for planting inchicken yards to afford temporary shade. Lb.25 cts. Cotton, Sea Island. Best variety. Oz. 10 cts.,lb. 50 cts. Cotton, Tenn. Upland. Sow 2 5 lbs. to the acre.Oz. 10 cts., lb. 50 cts. Flax, or Linseed. Best Riga. Lb. 10 cts. Hop Vine. (Humulus lupulus), Well known.Pkt. 10 cts., oz. $1.50. Pyrethrum Cinerariaefolium. The plant fromwhich is made the Persian insect powder inEurope, or Buhach as made in California.Pkt. 15 cts., oz. $1. Lathyrus sylvestris Wagnerli (Flat Wood Pea).Is twice as nutritious as alfalfa and o

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