Title: Catalogue of seeds, agricultural & horticultural supplies and guide for the garden, field & farm
Identifier: catalogueofseeds1897germ (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Germain
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Hungarian Millet. JVIILbETS. French Round White, Imported. A very choice variety of Millet with large, round, pearly white seeds, used by the French for making into bread, generally sold in this country for feeding valua- ble foreign birds, Per lb., 15c; 100 lbs., $12.00. German, or Golden Millet. This variety is not so early as the Common Millet, but yields a much larger crop. Will grow from three to five feet in height; the heads are closely condensed and the spikes very numerous. Seeds round, and golden yellow in color. It will yield two crops a season. Has given great satisfaction wherever grown. Per lb., 10;c 100 lbs., $4.50. Hungarian (Grass) Millet. (Panicum Germanicum.) This annual forage plant is a Millet, and is one of the most valuable for a soiling crop, as it will grow in any ordinary soil, and will withstand the most severe droughts. It may be sown in this latitude middle of June. As a green crop for plowing in, it is very fructifying, (see cut.) Per lb., 10c; 100 lbs., $4.50. Italian Millet. (Seiaria Italica.) This variety grows much larger ihan Hungarian Grass, and pro- duces a heavier crop; not quite so early; heads nodding, four to six inches long, yellowish; seeds oval, slightly flattened, yellow. Per lb., 10c; 100 lbs., $7.00. Common Millet. (Panicum Miliaceum.) Very early; height two to three feet; foliage broad and very abundant; heads open, branching panicles; seeds glossy, oval, somewhat flattened. Per lb., 10c; 100 lbs., $4.00. The foregoing Millets should all be cut while in bloom. Pearl, or Egyptian Millet. (Penicillaria Spicata.) This is quite distinct from all other species, and is without doubt destined to take a place in the front rank of vegetable forage plants. Sown in light, sandy soil, the plants at first appear feeble, resembling Broom Corn; but when a few inches above ground they begin to tiller, and new shoots appear very rapidly from the original root. When cultivated for fodder the seed should be dropped in drills and given plenty of room, on account of the peculiar habit of tillering. The fodder is in the best condition for cutting and cur- ing when the stalks are five to six feet high. Per lb., 30c; 10 lbs., $2.50. Evergreen Millet, or Johnson Grass. (Sorghum Halepense.) A perennial with fleshy underground stems, about the size of the little finger. These are very tender, and are much liked by hogs. They literally fill the ground near the surface, and every joint will develope a bud. On good ground, the stems attain a height of five to ten feet, growing about as thick as they can stand on the ground. It likes dry, hot weather, and will grow luxuriantly where it is too hot and dry for most other grasses. Sow early in the spring, at the rate of thirty pounds of seed per acre. The seed should not be sown until the weather becomes moderately warm. Per lb., 10c; 100 lbs., $7.50. FIELD PEAS. These are sown for marketing dry, for split Peas, for fodder or for stock, and for soiling. Plant at the rate of 150 lbs. to the acre broadcast, or in drills at the rate of 80 lbs. per acre Sown at the rate of 100 lbs. to the acre, with an equal quantity of oats, they are cut and cured with oats either as hay or to be threshed; when both grains are bound together. Black=eyed Marrowfat. Very hardy and prolific. Good for either soiling or fodder. Per lb., 10c; per 100 lbs., $4.00. Blue Prussian. The boiling Pea of Commerce. Per lb., 10c; 100 lbs., $4.00. Southern Cow Pea, Black Eye. This is not exactly a Pea, but more properly belongs to the Bean family. The pods may be harvested for the grain, and the plants plowed under to fertilize the soil. The seed or grain is ground and used for cattle fodder; the stalks and leaves also make ex- cellent fodder, fed green. Poor, sandy land, may be greatly improved by plowing under a crop of Cow Peas, and thus made into fertile loam. Plant in a thoroughly pulverized soil. If grown for fodder or the seed, plant three and a half feet apart and cultivate thoroughly. The seeds must not be sown until the ground has become thoroughly warm. Per lb., 10c; 100 lbs., $5.00. Australian Salt Bush is the coming fodder plant for California Alkali Lands.

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