HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
SWEET CORN— EARLY WHITE VARIETIES 
T TNDER favorable soil and weather conditions you 
^ may count on picking ears of either Peep O’ Day , 
Early Malakoff, or Early Mayflower within seventy days 
from date seeds are sown. But do not expect the ears to 
be either of large size or good quality. They average six 
or seven inches long, are generally eight-rowed, and are 
of fair flavor. Planting Early Dawn at the same time 
will enable you to gather better filled, six-inch ears of 
superior quality with ten rows about a week later. 
Ten days later, or in about eighty-five days from date of 
planting, Pocahontas gives home gardeners the first taste 
of real white sweet corn. Its ears are generally ten- 
rowed, average eight inches long, and the deep kernels 
are of very choice quality. This sort may be considered 
the latest of the extra early or the earliest of the mid- 
season sorts. Planting three fifteen-foot rows each of 
Peep O’ Day , Early Dawn , and Pocahontas provides about 
fifteen dozen ears during late July and early August. 
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