52 J. STECKLER SEED CO., LTD., ALMANAC AND 
CULLARDS, 
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Blatterkohl (Ger.), Chou Cora (Fr.), Cabu (Sp.) 
A kind of Cabbage which does not head, but the leaves are used the same as 
other cabbage, and is very popular in the South. 
CORN SALAD. 
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Mache Douchet (Fr.), Acker Salat (Ger.), Canonigas (Sp.), Valeriana (Ital.) 
Broad-leaved Corn Salad is the variety generally cultivated. It 
a salad during the winter and early spring months. 
is used as 
Should be sown broadcast 
or in drill 9 inches apart during fall and winter. 
CORN —Indian. 
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Mais (Fr.), Welschkorn (Ger.), Maiz (Sp.), Mais (Ital.) 
CULTUREH.—Plant in hills about three feet apart, drop four or five seeds and 
thin out to two or three. 
Where the ground is strong the Adams’ 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 kinds. 
from February to June. 
Champion White Pearl. 
Champion White Pearl. This is a very 
handsome white corn. The grain is pure 
wkite, exceedingly heavy and long, top 
of which will span the cob, which is 
smail. -Being medium in size of stalk 
it can be planted much thicker than a 
large corn, end at the same time bear a | 
The originator has estab- | 
full sized ear. 
lished in Champion White Pearl Corn a 
short, thick stalk, with the ear growing 
low upon it, which is an advantage in 
stormy weather. Planted a good deal for 
the market. 
Adams’ Extra Early. The earliest kind, 
but ears are small and not as desirable 
as the Adams’ Early, which follows this | 
varlety closely in maturity. 
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| to be the earliest in the market. 
| fully two weeks earlier than Extra Harly 
; any Corn. 
| prolific than Hxtra Early Crosby’s, the 
4; ears are somewhat larger and the kernel 
| ears run entirely 
' some three to five 
Plant for a succession 
First in the Market Sugar. A new va- 
riety of Sugar Corn for which we claim 
Tt.as 
Crosby and nearly a week earlier than 
It is a good producer, more 
of a pale, some of the 
while others 
The stalks 
pinkish color, 
white, 
again are of a deep pink. 
7 grow larger than the Crosby’s, almost as 
| tall as Stowell’s Evergreen, and produces 
two ears each. We consider this variety 
one of the best, if not the best of all the 
Sugar Corns, owing to its earliness, and 
we would recommend it to all, either for 
| market or family use. 
INe Plus Ultra or Shoe Peg Sugar. Is 
days earlier than 
Country Gentleman Ccrn, which is as 
late as Stowell’s Evergreen. It has very 
small cob, long grain, shape of shoe pegs. 
It is very sweet and tender and largely 
used by market men in the large cities 
of this country. 
Frotscher’s Adams’ Early Large. This 
is almost exclusively pianted for the first 
roasting ears by the market gardeners. 
The ears are of good size, but ctherwise 
for the table only same as common corn. 
Strange to say, the gardeners do not 
plant any sugar corn for the market. We 
sell hundreds of bushels of St. Charles 
and other varieties of field corn to be 
planted for. the market, to be sold green. 
Snowflake White Dent. Large ear, large 
cob; very rank and strong growth—good 
in all that makes up a big white corn. 
Hammers and Anvils for 
Beating French Blades. 
