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(g) JOHNvSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA (g) 



0Orn — Sweet or Sugar. 



One quart will plant about two hundred hills and one 

 peck is required to plant an acre in hills. 



.63" Please remember our prices on Sweet 

 Corn do not include postage. Add 8c. per pint, 

 15c. per quart for jiostage when ordered to be 

 sent bv mail. 



I^AKGE PACKETS OF ANT TAKIETT, 5c. 

 EACH. 



EARS OF EARLT VARIETIES, oc. EACH , LATE 

 VARIETIES, 10c. EACH. 



Half peck and half bushel at peck and bushel rales. 



^UR BANK'S 



Early. Main^^ 



Early and Intermediate Varieties. 



BURBANK'S EARLT MAINE SWEET CORN. 



When Mr. E. W. Burbauk, of Maine, wrote us four years ago 

 tliat he had originated a pure white Sweet Corn, earlier than 

 Cory, we were at first inclined to doubt his statement, but 

 his claim has now Iteen confirmed by om- own trials, as well 

 a-i by many of our Market Garden customers, who write they 

 find it to be fully three to five days earlier, with many other 

 decided advantages over tlie famous Cory Corn. The ear is 

 much longer and larger, with a pure white cob, kernels rich 

 cream white, sweet and juicy. Stalk grows to medium 

 heiglit, and on good ground will average two ears. For large, 

 white ears, sweetness and the length of time it remains fit 

 for use, Biirbank's Early 3Iaine takes first place as iht 

 finest extra early Hweet Corn for both the market gardener and 

 private planter. Pkt., lOc: pint, 20c.: qt., 40c., post-paid ; qt., 

 25e.; peck, Sl.OfI; hush., *3..50, bv freiglit or express. 



NEW^ WHITE CORY SWEET CORN. We were 

 among the first seedsmen to introduce the now popular Cory 

 Corn, nine years ago, our supply having been first obtained 

 from Mr. .Toseph Cory, tlie originator, while on a visit to his 

 farm in Rhode Island. For several years selections have been 

 made of the few white grains that always appeared in the 

 Cory, until we now have a thoroughbred White Cory Com, 

 entirely free from the objectionable red color, making it look 

 much nicer for the table. In earliness, dwarf habit and other 

 respects, it is exactly the same asthe well-kno'n'n Cory, which 

 it will undoubtedly entirelv supplant when generallv intro- 

 duced. Pkt., lOc; pint, 2dc., qt., 40c., post-paid. Qt., 25c.; 

 peck, Sl.OO: bush., 83.50. 



NEW^ CHAMPION. Now offered for the first time. 

 See Novelties, page?. Pkt., 10c.; pint, 25c.; qt., 45c. 



THE CORY will produce good ears for boiling in fi.fiii- 

 tno days from planting. It has a larger kernel than tlie Mar- 

 blehead atid is quite distinct, being nearly white in color. 

 Cm- stock comes directly from Mr. Jos. Cory, the originator. 

 Pint. lOc; <it., 20c.; peek, 75c ; bush., ?2.25. 



FIRST OF AI,!.. This new variety is a selection from 

 the Cory, coming in a few days ahead of this famous sort. 

 The ears are about the same .size as Cory, a little lighter in 

 color. It cannot fail to prove valuable for earl v market. Pkt., 

 6.; pint, lOc; qt, 20c.; peck, 80c.; bush.,S.3 00. 



STABLER'S PEDIGREE EXTRA EARLY. A popu- 

 lar variety with Philadelphia gardeners, noted for its earli- 

 ness. Pint, lOc; qt., 20c.: peck, flOc ; bush., S-3 25. 



BURLINGTON HYBRID. This variety has been 

 grown for several years with great profit by a few truckers 

 of Burlington County, N. J. It has been adopted by a large 

 number of our own patrons, on our recommendation many 

 of whom have written us that it gives them entire control of 

 the early markets, proving extremely profitable. It is a cross 

 between .Adams' Extra Early and a large-eared, productive 

 variety of sugar com. Its great market value can be readily 

 seen from the fact that it is as early as the Adams, with an 

 ear fully as large as StoweH's Evergreen, and more pro- 

 ductive than either, producing equal to the most prolific 

 field corn, it having frequently produced over one hundred 

 bushels to the acre grown as a field crop. Although not 

 legitimately a sugar corn, yet the husks, blades and ear in a 

 green state exactly resemble the sugar varieties, and it sells 

 readily in market as a sweet or sugar corn. It is, however, of 

 much belter eating quality than the Adams. When dry the 

 grainis smooth and of a creamy-white color. Thctalksgrow 

 to a height of about five feet and very compact, admitting of 

 closer planting than any other variety ; the ears begin to set 

 low down, and are borne three to four to a stalk. Pkt., •5c.; 

 pint, 10c: qt., 20c.: peck, 80c.; bush., 82.50. 



EARLY DAW^N. This new and distinct sugar corn 

 is pronounced by those who have grown it a most valuable 

 intrndaction. It is unquestionably the Largest-eared 

 W^hite-cobbed Early Sweet Corn, with rich, creamy-white 

 kernels, so large, plump and deep that the shell or hull, so 

 prominent in most varieties, is reduced to a minimum ; the 

 ears, in many instances, having si-Kteen to twenty-two rows. 

 Pkt., 5c.; pint. lOc; qt.. 20c.: peck, 81.00; bush,, 83.75, 



NEW EARLY BONANZA. A few years since, an 

 enterprising market gardener of this city a.stonished his 

 brother gardeners by having in market, several tveeks ahead 

 of any of them, large, fine ears of sweet corn in great abund- 

 ance, for which he obtained almost fabulous prices. Having 

 become quite celebrated for its fine qualify, it was much 

 sought after. Its good qualities were fixed by careful selec- 

 tion of seed, and it was named Nkw Eakly Bonanza. It is 

 undoubtedly as early as Minnesota, Crosby's and other extra 

 early varieties, while the ears are much larger. It is exceed- 

 ingly prolific, bearing two or three good ears to the stalk. 

 Pint, 10c.;"qt., 20c.: peck, 8.5c ; bush., f3.00. 



THE GU.4.RANTEE. This variety has had a great 

 reputation for years in one of the largest market houses in 

 Philadelphia, where it has been brought in its season by a 

 Chester County market man. It had become known to its 

 patrons as "The Guarantee," he having always, in disposing 

 of it, guaranteed it to be the sweetest in the whole market. 

 We have seen his supply of this corn sold out before 8 o'clock 

 in the morning, long before the market was half over, not- 

 withstanding the fact that his price was always 10c. per 

 dozen above his competitors. It grows a fair-sized, handsome 

 white ear. coming in second early or intermediate, and pro- 

 ducing three to four ears on each stalk. Pint, lOc; qt., 20c.; 

 peck. ^'l.nO; bush., S3,75. 



