Most Sweet Corn is really sweet only if it is home grown. As soon as it's picked, the 

 sugar begins to turn to starch, and six hours after it's picked, most of the sweetness is 

 gone. Illustrated above showing comparative row and kernel characteristics are (1) Gold- 

 en Bantam (2) Golden Cross Bantam (3j Country Gentleman. 



CELERY 



Start in shaded hctbed 60 days be- 

 fore needed. Cover seeds V4". Trans- 

 plant when 6" high. In setting out- 

 doors, don't get soil in or over 

 crown. Set 7" to 12" apart. Soil 

 must be rich, moist and loose. As 

 soon as plants have grov/n to 14" 

 to 15" tall, set 12" boards on both 

 sides of rov/ and hold in place with 

 earth. Or 4" drain tile can be used 

 to blanch individual stalks. Celery 

 must have warm, settled weather: 

 If chilled, plants are likely to go to 

 seed. Keep soil well fertilized and 

 moist. Crop matures in cool weather 

 of autumn. 



Giant Pascal — Late variety for winter 

 use. Large plant, dark green leaves. 

 Big solid stalks that blanch to yellov/ 

 white. 135 days. 



Golden Self Blanching, Dwarf — Com- 

 pact plants, yellowish green foliage. 

 Broad solid stalks, nutty flavor. Blanches 

 resdily. 120 days. 



Wonderful or Golden Plume — Early, 

 medium plant with compact, full heart. 

 Blanches easily to golden yellov/. 112 

 to 115 days. 



COLLARDS 



Sow seed heavily and transplant 

 when A" high; or sov/ in rov/s in 

 permanent beds and thin to 16" to 

 18" apart when plants are well 

 started. 



Southern or Georgia — An excellent 

 cooked green. Long stemmed piant, 

 vath clustered leaves. Withstands heat 

 and bad soil. 24 to 36 days. 



SWEET CORN 



For the home gardener, the simplest 

 way to plant sweet corn is in rows 

 or drills, not in hills. Plant on north 

 side of garden or so late summer 

 shade from your corn does not re- 

 tard grovrth of other nearby vege- 

 tables. Space the rows 36" apart, 

 and plant a seed about every 3". 

 Thin stalks to stand 9" to 12" apart 

 in row. The drill should be 3" to 4" 

 deep, but don't cover seed with 

 more than 1" of soil. The drill or 

 furrovr can be filled in as the plants 

 grov/ to anchor them against the 

 wind. 



In hills, plant 4 to 6 grains per hill. 

 Later thin to 2 or 3 stalks to a hill. 

 Space several plantings at intervals 

 of 14 days for continuous crop. 

 Removing suckers has been standard 

 practice with practically all grov/ers. 

 Now, experiments prove that remov- 

 ing suckers merely takes av/ay extra 

 food-producing leaves and so hurts 

 rather than helps grov/th. Also, 



suckering often disturbs roots enough 

 to injure plant. Always plant corn in 

 several short rows side by side 

 rather than one long row. Com is 

 pollinated by wind and rows side- 

 by-side mean that all the stalks can 

 be reached by the pollen. Many 

 home gardeners, on reading nev/s- 

 paper accounts of corn de-tasseling, 

 assume that this is necessary to set 

 ears. On the contrary, removing 

 tassels may cut the crop seriously. 

 Detasseling is only done where 

 hybrid com is raised for seed pur- 

 poses. The more pollen that flies, 

 the better the set of kernels. So 

 don't detassel sv/eet com in the 

 home garden. If weeds are under 

 control, stop cultivating. If v;-eeds 

 are bad late in the season, work the 

 soil as shallow as possible to avoid 

 injuring surface feeder roots. 



Hybrids 



We offer Hybrid Sweet Corn varieties 

 known as the best for your garden — 

 the finest that can be procured any- 

 where. We list here only a fev/ of these 

 choice kinds. Whatever your needs or 

 your preference, be sure we can supply 

 you with the kind of corn you want. 

 Talk it over with us. 



Golden Cross Bantam (fr) — Extrem.ely 

 uniform. Ears 10 to 14 rows, slightly 

 lighter yellow than Golden Bantam. 

 Highly resistant to Stewart's disease. 85 

 days. 



loana (fr)— 1940 All-America. Ears 71/2 

 to 8-in., v/ell filled v/ith 12 or 14 rows 

 of deep medium narrow, light yellow 

 kernels. Highly resistant to drought and 

 bacteria v/ilt. 87 days. 

 MarcToss (fr) — An early wilt-resistant 

 hybrid, producing deep golden yellow 

 kernels 7 days earlier than Golden 

 Bantam. Ears 6 to 7-in. long, with 12-14 

 rows of large sv/eet kernels. 73 days. 

 Stowell's Hybrid Evergreen — White. 

 Large Bars about 8-in. long; big kernels, 

 very sv/eet. One of the best late va- 

 rieties. 95 days. 



Open-Pollinated 



Bantam Evergreen — A cross of Golden 

 Bantam on Stowell's Evergreen. 14 to 

 18 rows. Deep, rich golden kernels, 

 tender, sweet. 90 days. 



Black Mexican — Pure white com with 

 purplish-black seed. Ears are 7 to 8-in. 

 long, 8 straight rows. 88 days. 



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Plrt. Pt. 



SWEET CORN, Yellow Varieties— Golden Bantam, Golden Ev- 

 ergreen, Whipple's Golden Yellow 10 .50 



White Varieties — Country Gentleman, Stowell's Evergreen . .10 .50 



Black Mexican 10 .50 



Popcorn — White Rice •^'^ -^^ 



Hybrid Varieties — Golden Cross Bantam, Marcross, Carmel- 

 cross, Spancross, Golden Evergreen, Stowell's Evergreen . .15 .80 



Pkt. 1^2 Ox. 



CUCUMBERS— Clark's Special, Earliest of All 10 



CUCUMBERS— Davis Perfect, Straight Eight, A & C, Long Fel- 

 low, Ex. Long Evergreen, Arlington White Spine, Marketer . .10 



Burpee Hybrid Cucumber 30 



Pickling Varieties — Jersey Pickling, National Pickling, Snow's 



Perfection, Cubit 10 



EGGPLANT — Black Beauty, New York Improved, Spineless . .10 .50 

 ENDIVE — Large Green Curled, Pancalier, Giant Fringed, 

 Broad-leaved Batavian 10 



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 give you the. com- 

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