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Gold Coin. A recently-introduced variety, with as large 

 an ear as Evergreen, but maturing a few days earlier. 



Mammoth Sugar is very late, and produces the largest ears 

 of any variety. Of good quality and superior for canning. 

 Remains long in the green state. 



POP CORN. 



VARIETIES. 



Pop Corn is emphatically a crop for the children, and they 

 would hardly consider the garden complete without a row or two. 

 It is as easily grown as field corn, and while the ears are not very 

 large, their number, especially with somewhat close planting, 

 will go far to make up for lack of size. 



White Rice is more generally grown than any other. 

 Ears quite large, a number' of them growing on one stalk. 

 Kernels sharply pointed. Superior for popping. 



Queen's Golden Pop Corn. 



Golden Pop, Queen's Golden Pop. Handsome, prolific 

 and reliable. 



Marblehead Prolific. This new variety is claimed to be 

 the m6st productive pop corn in cultivation. Ears are eight to 

 ten inches long, filled out to the end with bright handsome white 

 grains. 



CRESS OR PEPPERGRASS. 



Lepidium Sativum. German, Kresse ; French, Cresson ; 

 Spanish, Mastuerzo. No vegetable starts quicker from seed, or 

 is easier to grow if the flea beetle is kept off. The leaves have a 

 very pungent taste, and are much used as a salad, usually as a 

 condiment with lettuce and other salad materials. Sow seed 

 thickly in drills one foot apart, guard against flea beetle depreda- 

 tions while the plants are small, and cut as desired. The plants 

 run to seed quickly, and frequent successive sowings must be 

 made, if a constant supply is wanted. 



Of the several varieties, the Curled or Normandy Garden 

 Cress and the Extra Curled Dwarf are generally grown in 

 America. 



Water Cress. Nasturtium officinale. German, Brunnen- 

 kresse ; French, Cresson de Fontaine ; Spanish, Berro. This 

 hardy perennial aquatic plant roots readily both in water, and wet 



