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EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN— Vegetable Seeds 



The Best Early Variety Q - f* The Best Late Variety 



Metropolitan OWCet l^Oril Country Gentleman 



To get the first crop of really good Corn, one must grow Metro- 

 politan. To be sure of the best quality at the last, Country 

 Gentleman is indispensable 



Henderson's Country 

 Gentleman Sweet Corn 



Plump, Pearly-White, Milky Kernels 

 Fairly Melting in the Mouth 



107. "When we first placed this Corn 

 before the public in 1891, it created a 

 great furore among Corn lovers — and 

 who is there in America who does not 

 enjoy "green Corn on the Cob"? 



These first impressions have been 

 fully justified by later experiences, and 

 the Country Gentleman Corn has be- 

 come justly famous all over the United 

 States and in some foreign countries 

 as well. It is at once the delight of 

 the epicure and a luxury within the 

 reach of everybody. As will be no- 

 ticed in the engraving opposite, the 

 kernels are perfectly round at the end, 

 but of extraordinary depth, the cob 

 being extremely small; nothing, in 

 fact, but a core. 



It is of nectar-like sweetness, lus- 

 cious, tender and milky, and remains 

 "in the milk" longer than other Sweet 

 Corn. The ears measure 8 to 9 inches 

 in length, and the plant is very prolific, 

 often producing three ears to a stalk. 

 It is a slow-maturing variety and 

 arrives at full perfection just in time 

 to succeed the earlier varieties. (See 

 engraving.) Price, 15c. pkt., 45c. pt., 

 85c. (it., $2.75 half peck. 



The Most Delicious Sweet Corn Grown 



Mr. Thomas M. Whyte, buyer of the 

 stores for one of New York's palatial 

 hotels, says: 



"I have found no green Corn so satisfactory as 

 the Country Gentleman. It is sweet and juicy, free 

 from worms or blemish. It will not be in market 

 before early in August and then New York will 

 begin feasting on the most delicious of Sweet Corn, 

 the Country Gentleman." — New York Evening 

 Mail, July 24. 



Henderson's 



Metropolitan Sweet Corn 



The Best Early Sweet Corn Grown 

 116. There has never been any one 

 variety of Corn ' besides Metropolitan 

 that combined the essential features of 

 earliness, productiveness and good 

 flavor in a satisfactory degree. In 

 these important characteristics, Metro- 

 politan certainly outclasses any other 

 variety. It is very little later than 

 Cory, which has been the most popular 

 early sort. 



The plant is distinct, being very 

 strong in stalk, 5% feet in height. The 

 leaves are numerous, narrow and very 

 dark green in color. The ears are from 

 8 to 9 inches long and all set low. 

 They are 10 to 12-rowed, well filled to 

 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. The best, the largest, 

 the sweetest and the biggest yielder of 

 all Early Sweet Corn. (See engraving.) 



See also on Colored Plate page 35 

 Henderson's Golden Country Gentleman, 



and Henderson's Silver Bantam, New PrJclTioc' pkt., 45c. pt, 85c. qt„ $2:75 

 varieties of Sweet Corn, half peck. 



We deliver packets, pints and quarts of corn transportation paid, anywhere in the U. S. or possessions. On half-pecks and 



over purchaser pays transportation 



