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Johnson & Stokes' Specialties for Market Gardeners. 



BURLINGTON 



HYBRID SWEET COEH. 



There is notbing in this Catalogue more worthy of the 

 careful consideration of market gardeners than this new corn, 

 and we felt highly gratified in being the first seedsmen to 

 offer it to the public, in the spring of 1S89. It is not an un- 

 tried Novelty, having been grown for several years, with 

 great profit, by a few truckers of Burlington County, N . J., who 

 have kept the stock closely guarded among themselves, they 

 positively refusing to sell seed to anyone. It is a cross be- 

 tween Adam's Extra Early and some large-eared productive 

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

 seen, from the fact that it is nearly as early as the 

 Adam's, with an ear fully as large as Stowell's Ever- 

 green, and more productive than either, producing equal 

 to the most prolific field corn. Although not legitimately a 

 sugar CO n, 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 bel- 

 ter eating quality than the Adam's. When dry, the grain is 

 smooth and of a creamy-white color. The stalks grow to a 

 height of about five feet and very compact, admitting of 

 closer planting than any other variety ; the eai-s begin to set 

 low down and are borne three to four to a stalk. Qt., 35c.; 

 peck, S2.00 ; bush., S7.00. 



THE CORT CORN. 



After carefully testing this new variety, we were the first 

 to offer it four years since ; grown side by side with Marble- 

 head and other early varieties it leads them all by fully a week. 

 It will produce good ears for boiling in fifty-two days from 

 planting. It has a larger kernel than the Marblehead, and is 

 quite distinct, being whiter in color. Market gardeners who 

 have grown the Cory Corn, have completely controlled the 

 early market. Our stock comes directly from Mr. Jos. Cory, 

 the originator. Qt., 40c.; peck, 90o.; bush,, S3.00. 



THE HONEY SWEET CORN. 



Nothing we have ever introduced has elicited from market gardeners such enthusiastic praise in all parts of the country. 

 It is pronounced by every person w'ho has eaten it the sweetest of any they have ever tasted. It originated with a German 

 market gardener, near AUentown, Pa., who had the reputation of bringing the finest and sweetest corn to that market, for 

 which he realized fabulous prices. In growth and appearance it is unlike any other variety, the husks and stalks being of a 

 deep red color during growth, while the com itself is of a beautiful creamy white, much siriveled when dry, with deep grain 

 and small cob. It is also a most productive variety, bearing three to four good large ears to a stalk, growing vigorously, and 

 coming in as early as Moore's Concord. Qt., 30c.; peck, $1.50 : bash., S.5.00. 



