Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_9 (find matches)
Year: 1904 (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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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1904. 47
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Wouder Forage piai>t. Most productive hay or fodder plant known. Grows 12to 14 feet high and ripens a heavy crop of seed in loo days from sowing. It can 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 resemble 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. Besides a heavy crop of fodder it will Field 3,000 pounds of seed per acre unequalled for poultry lood and will ripen in any latitude that will ripen corn. Pkt., ioc.; oz., 20c.; K lb., 50c.: lb., $1.50. 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 cov- ered with heavy foliage. It produces forty tons to the acre. Pkt., ioc. ; oz., 15c.: lb.. $1.50.

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