SEED GROWERS 23 
CHICORY Tauro 
Code Word 
Asparagus or Radichetta (Catalogna) 55 days CHITA 
Fast growing annual; grown for tops which are used for greens; 
tender flower shoots also used. Also known as Italian Dandelion. 
Large Rooted or Coffee 65 days CHICO 
Roots mature in 4—5 months. Dried roots used as substitute for 
and adulterant of coffee. Roots 12—14 in. long, 2% in. thick at 
top; tapered. 
Witloof or French Endive 150 days CHIWI 
One of the most attractive of salad vegetables; grown largely 
by market gardeners and shippers. Each carefully trimmed 
root when buried upright in damp sand and given the proper 
conditions produces a handsome compact cluster 4—5 in. long of 
blanched leaves which are tender and have a rich, mildly acrid 
flavor. 
CHIVES 
Allium Schoenoprasum 90 days CHIVE 
Small perennial of the onion family; readily propagated from 
seeds; leaves used in salads and for flavoring soups and stews; 
Jowering plant is decorative. 
COLLARDS 
Cabbage or Heading 75 days COLBG 
A desirable type producing rather compact plants 114—2 feet 
high. Large loose clusters of leaves which often show a tendency 
to form a head. Also known as Buncombe. 
Georgia, Southern or Creole 75 days COLLA 
Non-heading form of the cabbage family very generally grown 
for greens in home and market gardens in the South. Plant 2—3 
feet tall, erect, spreading, and with numerous large leaves; forms 
at the top a loose cluster or head of tender leaves. 
CORN (Shelled) 
The very important character of earliness is given the attention it merits at our seed breeding 
stations and trial gardens. The number of days required for each variety of corn to produce ears fit 
for table is indicated below. This information is the result of many years observation of these varieties 
at our Oakview Experimental Gardens near Detroit, where corn is planted early in May. Rather 
than use the minimum days required we have used the average of many seasons for each variety. 
We have described the ears at table stage. 
SWEET OR TABLE VARIETIES code Word 
Alameda Sweet COLAM 
90 days. Medium early white sweet corn used mainly in Cali- 
fornia. Ears plump 7—8 inches long, 14—18 rowed, kernels white, 
moderately narrow and deep. Distinguished by the tight wrap- 
ping of husks about the tip, thus limiting injury by corn ear 
worms. Stalks 4144—5 feet tall; heavily productive. 
ALPHA COALP 
72 days. The earliest sweet corn; a money-maker for early market. 
Plants 4 feet tall. Ears attractive; 6—7 in. long; 8 rowed; very 
uniform. Kernels white, plump, sweet, and tender. 
%* Bantam Evergreen (Golden) COBAN 
95 days. Thrifty, productive, valuable for canning and market. 
Stalks 6—7 feet tall. Ears large, 714 to 8 inches long with 14—18 
rows of compact kernels that are rich golden cream in color, of 
good flavor, and have the “‘evergreen” quality of remaining in 
table condition for a long time. 
Barden’s Wonder Bantam COWON 
82 days. Good home and market garden strain of Golden Bantam. 
Ears 8-rowed but larger, kernels broad, tender, very good flavor. 
Stalks slightly taller and stauncher than original strain. 
Black Mexican COMEX 
88 days. Home garden variety of splendid quality. Plants 61% feet 
tall. Ears 8—9 in. long; 8 rowed; very uniform. Kernels clear 
white at table stage; tender and of a rich sweet flavor; become 
uniform blue-black when ripe. 
