Mid-Season Fegetables 



tised, each seedsman having his own favorite 

 specialty, but there are really but two that one 

 need take into consideration — ^the old, rehable 

 Stowell's Evergreen and the new Bantam Ever- 

 green — a cross between that exceptionally sweet 

 corn, the Golden Bantam, and Stowell's Ever- 

 green, and combining the great qualities of both 

 parents, the delicious sweetness and tenderness 

 and earliness of Bantam with the more generous 

 size and more tender skin of the Evergreen. 

 Plant these two varieties and have the best to be 

 obtained in sweet corn. One planting of Ever- 

 green will give big generous ears of late corn, 

 while for succession the Bantam may be planted 

 every two weeks up to July. 



When the corn is a couple of feet high it will 

 be well to go through the patch and remove 

 all suckers or barren stalks so as to conserve all 

 the food and moisture for the production of ears. 



In addition to barnyard manure, wood ashes is 

 an important fertilizer for corn, supplying the 

 potash so essential to its growth ; this may be put 

 in the hill at the time the corn is planted or may 



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