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PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— WHOLESALE CATALOGUE. 



Hendersons Metropolitan Sweet 



The Best, Largest and Most Productive Extra Early Sweet 



Combines earliness and good flavor. Only two days later 

 The plant is strong in stalk, growing 5£ feet in height; leaves 

 narrow and dark green. The ears, two or three to the plant, 

 low. They are uniformly 9 inches long, 10 to 12 rowed, we 

 the tip with large, deep grains, which are very tender. It is 

 not merely sweet, but possesses that exquisite richness so 

 well known in the larger and later sorts. An ample husk 

 insures its remaining in the " milk " longer than is usual with 

 early varieties. (See cut.) Price, 26c. qt., $1.40 pk., $4.75 bush. 



WHITE COB CORY. 



A Popular Extra Early Sweet Corn. 



An extremely early variety, usually fit to use in from fifty 

 to sixty days from seed sowing. It retains all the good qualities 

 of its parent, but has a white cob and the grains are free from 

 the objectionable reddish tinge that occurs in the red cob va- 

 riety. The plants are dwarf and stocky, enabling them to be 

 closely planted. It is not only a first early but is valuable to 

 plant late for autumn use. Price, 25c. qt., $1.30 pk., $4.50 bush. 



HENDERSON'S 

 COUNTRY GENTLEMAN SWEET COKN. 



The Best, Most Productive and Salable of Main Crop Varieties. 



Is the finest of all Sweet Corns. It retains its tenderness and 

 flavor even when a little old, as the ears are enclosed in a heavy 

 husk, which tends to keep the ear " in the milk " for several 

 days longer than other corns. The ears average eight to nine 

 inches in length, cob small; plump white kernels of great depth 

 fill the ear from end to end. It is a very safe and reliable 

 cropper. Price, 25c. qt., $1.40 pk., $4.75 bush. 



THE "HENDERSON" SWEET CORN. 



This ideal corn follows after the early varieties, and about 

 two weeks before the latest sorts, producing large, thick ears, 

 averaging twelve inches in length, being compactly filled 

 from butt to tip with long milky-white kernels of luscious tender- 

 ness. The plants are luxuriant growers and prolific. One of 

 the most valuable sorts for canning and market. 



Price, 25c. qt., $1.30 pk., $4.50 bush. 



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HENDERSON'S POCAHONTAS. 



POSITIVELY THE EARLIEST SWEET CORN GROWN. 



Pocahontas Sweet Corn is positively 3 days earlier than any 

 other sweet corn grown, regardless of the claims for earliness 

 made for some other varieties, for we have proven it so in our 

 trial grounds for three years alongside all other early varieties 

 offered by other houses. 



Pocahontas is the result of a selection for several years from 

 the White Cob Cory. In addition to earliness and uniformity 

 of plant it is remarkably productive. The ears are stout, 

 evenly and compactly filled with tender white kernels of very 

 fine quality for so early a variety. (See cut.) Price, 30c. qt., 

 $1.75 pk., $6.00 bush. 



"You have all the seedsmen " skinned " on Early Sugar Corn in your Pocahontas 

 Tl'e [>ulled our first ears on the 8th of July — a week ahead of Minnesota and Flora- 

 croft Beauty, and 10 days ahead of Extra Early Market — all planted at the samt 

 time. These sorts have always been the earliest around here. 



"I would like to know of a sugar corn that will beat or equal your Pocahontas in 

 earliness and size of ears." W. T. BOSWORTH . Newport, Ohio, 



Henderson's "GOLDEN ROD" SWEET CORN. 



This newest — and we think the best of all the yellow varieties 

 — is our hybrid, the resultant crossbreed between Stowell's 

 Evergreen and Golden Bantam, and it possesses many of the 

 merits of both parents with other merits exclusively its own. 

 The plants, sturdy, healthy and leafy grow 6 to 7 feet high and 

 bear almost invariably on each stalk, and in 60 to 70 days from 

 sowing — two fine ears 8 to 10 inches in length, buxomly filled 

 with deep succulent kernels of a rich, translucent cream-yellow 

 color, tender, deliriously melting and sweet. This luscious 

 " milk stage " quality being maintained for an unusually long 

 time on account of the thick, protecting husks which also check 

 attacks from insects, worms and smut. When mature this corn 

 is of a golden-chrome color. Price, 15c. pkt., 35c. pint, 60c. 

 quart, $4.00 peck. 



For free delivery in the U. S., add 5c. per pint or 10c. qt. 



FOR OUR COMPLETE LIST OF SWEET CORN SEE PAGE 37. FOR FIELD CORN SEE PAGE 48. 



