Broom-Corn

Sorghum vulgare. Asia, extensively cultivated in the U. S. spikelets are used in making brooms. Coarse gra , native of The long axes of the A warm, rich, alluvial IMG:content-0627.png:[blocks in formation] soil is especially suited to this crop. The seed-bed must be well prepared and the planting not done till the ground is thoroughly warm. Cultivation is the same as for Indian corn. When the seed-panicles appear the head is broken over (tabled), so that the weight of the maturing seed may cause the brush to grow straight. When the seed is ripe, the heads and upper part of the stalk are cut off, the seed scraped off, and the brush packed in bundles for sale. Broome, WILLIAM, 1689-1745. English translator of the Iliad in prose, and of eight books of the Ody ey in verse, in Pope's version. Broom-Rape. Phelipœa Ludo vic i an a . Parasitic plant of the natural family Orobanchaceæ , native of the s. w. U. S.; in Europe, other species of the same order.