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Title: Annual catalogue of seeds : 1898
Identifier: CAT31291710 (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Thos. W. Emerson Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Thos. W. Emerson 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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27 Grass Seed, Seed Grains, Etc. (continued.)
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Flaxseed Spring Rye. Distinct from the winter rye, grain of finer quality and more productive; can be successfully grown in any latitude White Winter Rye. An excellent variety to sow for green fodder for horses or cattle . . . ... White Russian Wheat (Beardless). Spring Saskatchewan Wheat (Beardless). Spring White Clawson Wheat. Winter Barley. Two rowed . Barley. Four rowed . Welcome Oats. Very productive and weighs from forty-eight to fifty lbs. per measured bushel. The grain is very large, handsome, plump and full, with thin, white, close fitting husk. They stool heavily. Extra strong, straight straw, live to six fee in height Golden Vine Field Peas . Canada Field Peas . Prussian Blue Field Peas Scotch Green Field Peas PER BUSH. $2 25 I 50 1 25 2 OO 2 OO 2 OO I 25 * 25 Bird Seeds. Canary Seed, Sicily. Care- fully selected ; the best qual- ity, recleaned Hemp, Russian. Heavy seed; first quality, recleaned Rape, German. Small-seeded variety, imported seed; extra quality .... Rough Rice, or Paddy Mixed Bird Seed . Bird Gravel .... Cuttle Fish Bone QT 15 IO per lb. 90 1 5° 1 5° 1 5° 1 50 )USH $0 15 $2 50 IO 2 OO 2 50 2 50 2 75 35 NEW JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. The Japanese Buckwheat is entirely distinct from all other varieties; the ker- nels are at least double the size of those of any other variety, and of a shape peculiar and distinct from all others. The straw is heavier, branches more, and does not need to be sown as thickly as other kinds. The white Russian oats Aour made from it is equal in quality to at of anv other buckwheat. It is enormously productive, having yielded forty bushels of good seed from half bushel sown. On account of its earliness it can be grown farther north than any other . per bush. $ I 50

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