Henderson's Selected Varieties of 



SWEET CORN 



CULTURE. — Plant five or six seeds one inch deep in hills four feet apmt for 

 standard sorts and about two feet apart for varieties like Cupid or Golden Bantam. 

 Planting can be made from middle of May until last week in July. In more southerly 

 latitudes planting is begun earlier and continued later. 



HENDERSON'S 



New Cupid Sweet Corn 



Offered for the First Time Last Year 



Superlatively Sweet — Temptingly Tender— A Delicious Morsel 



Heavy Crops on Small Plots Are Now Possible 



110. Longfellow says: "Art is long and time is fleeting," and this is just as true 

 of the Art of .Horticulture as of any other. Especially is this so, when the en- 

 deavor is to improve upon nature, and that is what has been accomplished in this 

 new variety of Sweet Corn, which represents seven years' work in cross-breeding 

 and selection. 



HENDERSON'S NEW CUPID is one of the earliest varieties — by this we mean 

 that it grows and is fit for eating in a shorter period of time, than almost any other 

 vr.riety. The "whiteness" of the kernels is also a marked feature and, as may be 

 seen by the illustration on the opposite page, they are truly as white as "driven 

 snow." 



The ears grow to a length of five or six inches, and each ear has an ample stem or 

 handle, which should be left on when cut, so that when served at the table the ear 

 will be more convenient to hold. Served in this manner, and eaten from the ear, it 

 makes a very dainty and delicious morsel. Our grower remarked when testing this 

 corn for quality, that he had been growing sugar corn for a great many years, and 

 knew all the leading varieties, but that he was sure that HENDERSON'S NEW 

 CUPID SWEET CORN excelled them all. 



One of the most desirable characteristics of HENDERSON'S NEW CUPID 

 SY/EET CORN is well pictured in the illustration, namely, the dwarf size of 

 the stalks, which never attain a height of more than four feet, enabling the 

 suburbanite to raise twice as much corn on the same space of ground. 



Last year we concluded that we had accumulated enough stock to justify 

 us in placing a small quantity of it with one of our experienced growers,_ to 

 crow for seed, and so we are now in a position to offer a very limited quantity. 

 (ajcc engraving.) Price, £0c. packet, 80c. pint, $1.50 quart. 



"There is no corn that can compare with Henderson's New Cupid. I have had many kinds 

 in my garden, hxd Cupid is the sweetest and whitest I have ever seen. Out of two packets I got 

 eighty eais of corn that were a real deticacu." WILLIAM DEITRICII, Bloomjhld, .V. .r. 



GOLDEN BANTAM SWEET CORN 



A Gem for the Small Garden — ^A Small Ear of Remarkable Quality 

 ONE OF THE SWEETEST SUGAR CORNS GROWN 



119. Golden Bantam is a dwarf medium, early variety, of exceptionally good quality and reliability. It is 

 rapidly becoming one of the most popular varieties in our list. While the individual plant ar^d ear are small, it may be planted so much closer 

 than the larger-eared sorts, so that the net product from a given_ area is about the same as of ordinary sorts. The plant is about 5 feet high, 

 medium early, but of exceptionally good quality. In all respects it is a gem— in size of plant, ear and grain. It is particularly well adapted to 

 small gardens, on account of its small size; to the more pretentious garden on account of its excessive cropping ability on a given area, and 

 to all because of its superb quality and delicious satisfying flavor. It maj be planted to advantage in hills three feet apart each way. If in 

 rows, they should be three feet apart, and the plants standing singly at nine-inch intervals. It is probably the best to use where only one sort 

 is planted, for it succeeds admirably under all conditions. (See engraving.) Price, 15c. pkt., 40c.' pt., 70c. qt., $2.50 for half peck. 



For Garden Tools of Quality See Our Illustrated List on Pages 144 to 172 



