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Title: Annual descriptive catalogue of seeds : the largest collection in the world for the flower garden for the lawn for the vegetable garden for the farm & nursery
Identifier: annualdescriptiv1895jmth (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: J. M. Thorburn & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs
Publisher: New York, N. Y. : J. M. Thorburn & 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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54 J. M. Thorburn & Co., 15 John St., New York. MISCELLANEOUS SEEDS—continued.
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TEASELS—Fuller's. The heads, furnished with barbed spikes, are used for combing cloth. Tea- sels require a good, deep soil, and should be sown about April or May. The young leaves are often used for feeding silkworms. Per lb., 25 cents; per 100 lbs., $13. TEOSIXTE. See Reana luxurians. TOBACCO SEED—Brazilian American. The finest Brazilian strain grown here ; makes excel- lent cigars and delightful, aromatic pipe smoking tobacco. Per oz., 25 cents ; per lb., $2. Climax. A cross between Burley and Sterling. Extra fine, bright variety. Per oz., 30 cents ; per lb., $3. Connecticut Seed-Leaf. The popular sort, used for cigar wrappers. Per oz., 25 cents ; per lb., $2. Conqueror. A superb,bright yellow, and a healthy, vigorous grower of the best form and finest texture. It ripens early, and is easily cured to the brightest color. Per oz., 30 cents ; per lb., $3. Havana. Seed gathered for us from the celebr ted plantations of the " Vuelto de Abajo." Peraoz., 35 cents ; per lb., $3.50. Honduras. A new mahogany variety, producing the very highest quality of tobacco of this type. A healthy and vigorous grower. Per oz., 30 cents; per lb., S3. TOBACCO SEED, continued. Kentucky Burley. Per oz.,25 cents ; per lb., $2. Oronoka, Yellow. A reliable old yellow variety, grown for more than fifty years, and improved with reference to the production of yellow stock. Per oz., 25 cents ; per lb., $2. Oronoka, White-Stem. From the Yellow Oro- noka, which it resembles. Per oz., 25 cts.; per lb., $2. Pennsylvania Seed-Leaf. Newest and best strain of this standard variety, of which more is sold and planted than of all others of the cigar kind combined. Per oz., 25 cents ; per lb., $2. j Persian Rose. Finer than the Muscatel, and may be relied upon to make the best cigar. Per oz., 30 cents ; per lb., $3. Pryor, Yellow. Preferred by many for brights, and succeeds where the other yellow sorts fail. The west is giving it preference. Per oz., 25 cents; per lb., $2. Pryor, Blue. The genuine James River favorite. Per oz., 25 cents ; per lb., $2. j Safrano. Of a rich, saffron-yellow color, and pos- sessing a soft, silky texture and a delightful flavor. Per oz., 30 cents ; per lb., $3. Sterling. The newest and brightest of the yellow type, and the earliest to ripen. Per oz., 25 cents; per lb., $2. Tennessee Red. Excellent for dark strips and wrappers. Per oz., 25 cents ; per lb., $2. Tuckahoe. Preferable to most of the older va- rieties for possessing more body. Leaf long and extra fine; the perfection of a wrapper. Peroz., 25 cents ; per lb., $2. 1 Virginia Oak Hill Yellow. Resembles White Burley in color, and Oronoka in shape and habit. Unsurpassed in delicacy of fiber. Per oz., 30 cts.; per lb., $3. Yellow Mammoth. A new western variety of the export type. Per oz., 25 cents ; per lb., $2. VETCHES—Spring. {Vicia sativa.) Sown broad- cast like wheat or barley, and sometimes mixed with oats for soiling. Used in France and Canada as a substitute for peas. Also ground up into flour, after which it is mixed with wheat flour for making bread. A valuable plant. Per qt., 20 cents; per bus., $3. Sand, Winter or Hairy Vetch. (Vicia villosa.) This variety thrives on poor, arid, sandy soils. It is sown either in fall or in spring, and generally mixed with Rye, which serves as a support to the plants. It grows to a height of from three to four feet, and can be cut twice for fodder, first as soon as the bloom appears, and then it can be again cut for the seed. The plant is perfectly hardy, and the produce is recommended as most nutritious. The seed is black and perfectly round, and should be sown at the rate of 1 % bushels to the acre. Per qt., 30 cents ; per bus., $'6. WILD RICE. {Zizania aquatica.) A native of our northern and western states. Valuable as a for- age plant for swamps and inundated lands. The Indians of the lake region of the northwest used to- gather it by beating it off into their canoes and then cure it for winter food. Before sowing, put the rice in coarse cotton bags, and sink them in water for twenty-four hours. Sow in water which is from six inches to five feet deep, with soft mud bottom, or on low, marshy places which are cov- ered with water the year round. In running water, sow as much out of the current as possible. Per lb., 25 cents ; per 100 lbs., $18. WORMS. Used the same as Snails and Caterpillars. Per pkt., 5 cents ; per oz., 30 cents.

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