BUBBANK'S 1918 NEW CBEATIONS IN SEEDS 
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The New Bantam Corn 
The early Bantam Sweet Corn, introduced by W. Atlee Burpee & Company 
several years ago, is quite universally known as the best of all early sweet corns. 
The ears are short and only eight rows to the ear. By most rigid selection for 
eight years I have produced an Early Bantam more uniform in all respects, more 
productive, and with TEN AND TWELVE BOWS of corn (o each ear. 
Packet 20c; ounce, 30c; pound, $1. 
I also offer an improved eight-rowed strain. Packet, 10c; ounce, 15c; pound, 60c. 
Rainbow Corn 
The leaves of this beautiful corn are variegated with bright crimson, yellow, 
white, green, rose, and bronze stripes. A really wonderful decorative plant, as 
easily grown as any common corn and is fully equal in beauty to the most expensive 
greenhouse dracsenas. Packet, 10c; ounce, 20c; pound, 60c. 
Popcorn -"Pure Gold" 
Unusually productive. Beautiful long slender ears, three and four to each 
stalk. The kernels pop white and larger than other kinds. 
Packet, 10c; pound, 30c; three pounds, 75c. (Not prepaid.) 
New "California" Field Corn 
A very early short stalked, extremely productive hard yellow field corn which 
has been under selection for earliness and productiveness for many years. 
Packet, 10c; pound, 25c. In 10 pound lots or more, not prepaid, 12c per pound. 
The Sunberry 
The Burbank Sunberry, an absolutely new species of Solanum created on my own 
farms, is an annual berry plant of the easiest culture, thriving even on rather 
poor soil. The berries are almost exactly like the large, sweet huckleberries of the 
Eastern states. The plants bear enormous quantities of berries which are highly 
prized for cooking, canning, etc. Grown and treated same as tomato plants, but 
with much less care. The Sunberry is especially prized in the cold North and in 
hot desert countries where other berries do not thrive. 
The berries, like some blackberries, should be well inpened two weeks after 
turning black if to be eaten raw, when they become very sweet and delicious, 
and will then remain in good condition on the plants for two months or more. 
If to be cooked they may be used in a week or so after turning black. A dozen 
large packing firms could be profitably employed in canning this fruit for two 
or three months each season. Will thrive in any climate and on any soil. The 
berries when picked will keep fresh nearly a month. On rich soil plant 3x4 feet 
apart; on poor soil, 2x3 feet. The berries may be rapidly gathered on a cloth by 
threshing the plants with a light stick. The ordinary production per acre is from 
twenty-five to forty thousand pounds. Packet, 15c; ounce, 40c. 
A New Canning Pea— "The Model" 
Several years ago I was requested by a well known packing house to produce 
a new pea, as those in use had so many faults that the growers were discouraged. 
The ideal pea to be produced must be small like the "Petite Pois" of France 
and of uniform size; must be sweet and the crop must be in best condition 
all at one time so that the product could be gathered by machinery. It must also 
be productive. I contracted to make this pea in six years. At the end of three 
years the ideal pea was ready. "Burbank Peas" can now be obtained of all dealers 
in first class goods. 
Lately I have produced another similar one but better and more productive, 
in fact the most productive of all peas grown here. Though not as large as some, 
its enormous productiveness and other good qualities merit your careful attention. 
Packet, 25c; ounce, 40c; pound, $3. 
