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SWEET CORN EARLY WHITE VARIETIES 



UNDER favorable soil and weather conditions you 

 may count on picking ears of either Peep O'Day, 

 Early Malako/, or Early Mayflower within seventy days 

 from date seeds are sown. But do not expect the ears to 

 be either of large size or good quality. They average six 

 or seven inches long, are generally eight-rowed, and are 

 of fair flavor. Planting Early Dawn at the same time 

 will enable you to gather better filled, six-inch ears of 

 superior quality with ten rows about a week later. 



Ten days later, or in about eighty-five days from date of 

 planting, Pocahontas gives home gardeners the first taste 

 of real white sweet corn. Its ears are generally ten- 

 rowed, average eight inches long, and the deep kernels 

 are of very choice quality. This sort may be considered 

 the latest of the extra early or the earliest of the mid- 

 season sorts. Planting three fifteen-foot rows each of 

 Peep 0* Day, Early Dawn, and Pocahontas provides about 

 fifteen dozen ears during late July and early August. 



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