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Extra Early and Crosby's Sugar can be planted in hills two and a half 

 feet apart, as these two varieties are more dwarfish than the other 

 varieties. Plant for a succession from February to June. 



Extra Early, or Crosby's Dwarf Siig^ar. This is a very 

 early variety and of excellent quality. Ears small, but very tender. 

 It is not so extensively planted as it deserves to be. 



Adam's Extra Early, the most popular variety with market 

 gardeners for first planting. It has no fine table qualities, but as it 

 grows to a good size, and is matured in about forty days from time of 

 planting, it meets with ready sale in the market, and for these reasons 

 gardeners prefer it. 



Early Sug-ar, or ISaw Eug'lancl. A long eight-rowed variety, 

 which succeeds the Extra Early kinds. Desirable variety. 



Stowel's Evergreen Siig-ar. This is the best of all Sugar 

 Corn. It is an early Corn, but the ears are of large size, and are 

 well filled. It remains green longer than any other variety, a) id is 

 quite productive. The cultivation of this excellent cereal, as well as 

 all other Sugar Corn, is much neglected, yet why i3eople will plant 

 common field-corn for table use, considering size instead of quality, I 

 cannot understand. 



Extra Early Sugar Corn. Earlv Su| 



or New En,2:lanfl Corn. Ea crsreen Susj^ar Corn. 



Oolden Dent Oourd Seed. A field variety which is very pro- 

 ductive at the North. It makes a very fine Corn South, but has to be 

 planted here several years in succession before it attains perfection, 

 as during the first year the ears are not well covered by the husk, as 



