8 HOLMES' TESTED SEEDS OF KNOWN VITALITY AND PURITY 



SWEET, or SUGAR CORN 



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Culture. — Sugar Corn requires a good soil and a warm situation. Begin for first early by 

 planting the early varieties about May 1, and for a continuous supply all Summer make plantings 

 about two weeks apart, from May 1 until late July, first planting early varieties, then later ones. 

 Plant in rows 3 feet apart each way. One quart for 200 hills, 8 to 10 quarts in hills for an acre, 

 liberal pits. 10 cents each, except where noted. 



First-Early Varieties 



Early Adams, or Burlingrton. Robust: early; productive; handsome ears for 



marketing, but of inferior quality 



Early Metropolitan. Ears 9 inches long 10- to 12-rowed, filled with luscious 



white milky kernels 



Early Minnesota. Standard early of dwarf growth, coming in between Cory 



and Crosby's; ears fair size, good quality. 



Extra-Early Dwarf Adams. Not Sugar Corn, small ears. 



CrOIiDEIT BANTAM. Deep yellow, very early, tender and sweet; entirely 



different from any other , . 



HOIiMES' PBEMO. One of the earliest and best Sweet Corns in existence. 



Tender, sweet, deliciously flavored 



Kendel's Early G-iant. Large, handsome ears; ready in 70 days 



Peep O'Day. (New.) Good early variety 



White Cob Cory. Extremely early, usually fit to use in from 50 to 60 days, 



ears 6 to 7 inches; milky white kernels; sweet, tender, plants dwarf 



Medium-Early Varieties 



Black Mexican. Medium early, 8-inch ears, well filled with large kernels 

 which, though black when ripe, are white when green and then exception- 

 ally sweet 



Clark's Nonesuch. Best large-eared, second-early 



Crosby's Early. Second-early; of fine quality 



Early Mammoth, or Asylum. Much earlier than Late Mammoth 



HOIIMES' SWEET DEIiICIOUS. Medium early. New, distinct and delicious 

 variety. Will grow ready for market in 75 days 



HOWIiIlTGr MOB. (New.) Second early; large ear; superior quality 



Wew Early Everg'reen. Ears as large as Stowell's; 10 days earlfer 



Perry's Hybrid. Second-early; large white kernels; sweet; tender 



Shakers' Early. Very large, white grain; early; productive 



Stabler's Early. Large-eared second-early; sweet 



Late, or Main-Crop Varieties 



Country G-entleman (Shoe-Peg, or Ne Plus Ultra). Ears 8 to 9 inches long, 

 cob small and irregularly crowded with pearly white kernels of great 

 depth, surpassingly sweet and tender 



Egyptian, or Washing-ton Market. Fine for market; ears large 



Henderson Sug-ar. An ideal mid-season Sweet Corn . . . 



Hickox. Earlier than Stowell's Evergreen; good for drying 



KOZiMES' TOP-NOTCH. Delicious flavor. Ears from 10 to 12 inches long.. 

 Fodder good and strong 



Mammoth. Very late; ears 14 inches; broad white kernels; superb quality. . . . 



Moore's Concord 



Pop Corn, Pield Corn and Podder Corn. See Field Seeds 



STOWEXiIi'S EVERGREEN". The standard late, for home, market and can- 

 ning; kernels long, tender and sugary 



WHITE EVERGREEN. A high-bred, ideal type of Stowell's Evergreen with 

 all its points of merit 



Zig'-Zag' Everg-reen. Good-sized ear; deliciously sweet 



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