VARIETAL DESCRIPTIONS OF VEGETABLES 
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WHIPPLE’S EARLY WHITE CHANT 
A leading medium early variety that gives splendid results in the home and market gardens 
and for shipping. 
STALKS—53^ to 63"2 feet tall, vigorous, sturdy stalk, medium foliage. 
EARS —7 to 8 inches long, fine appearing ear carrying well out on cob, 14 to 18 
rowed, quite often 2 ears per stalk. 
KERNEL—White, medium width, deep, sweet, good quality. Seed, white and wrinkled. 
VANGUARD CRUEL 
Valuable as a dependable early, long-eared, market garden variety as well as home garden. 
STALKS—5 to 6 feet tall, sturdy, moderately heavy foliage. 
EARS —8 to 83^2 inches long, 10 rowed, somewhat tapering. 
KERNEL—White, not deep, of good quality. Seed, white, somewhat wrinkled. 
OREGON EVERGREEN (Resistant to Earworm) CUBEB 
A late, white sort that holds a large place in the sweet corn acreage on the West Coast. 
STALKS—7 to 8 feet tall, good foliage, quite hardy. 
EARS —8 to 9 inches long, 14 to 18 rowed, plump, long husk with tightly twisted 
ends for keeping down damage by corn earworm, sometimes 2 ears per stalk. 
KERNEL—White, wider than Narrow Grained Evergreen. Seed, white and wrinkled. 
YELLOW VARIETIES 
Barden’s Wonder Bantam Sweet Corn 
BARDEN’S WONDER BANTAM (Early) CLUES 
Desirable for home and market gardeners and shippers who want a heavier foliaged, more 
vigorous growing, longer eared variety than Golden Bantam. 
STALKS—5 34 to 6 feet tall, vigorous, sturdy, heavy foliage. 
EARS —734 to 834 inches long, 8 rowed, somewhat pointed, sometimes 2 ears per 
stalk. 
KERNEL —Yellow, tender, sweet, of good quality and flavor. Seed, dark yellow, 
wrinkled. 
GOLDEN BANTAM CHOKE 
The old reliable yellow sweet corn. Highly praised by home and market gardeners and 
canners. It has proved invaluable as a parent stock in many of our hybrids of today. 
STALKS—434 to 534 feet tall, high percentage of stalks with 2 ears. 
EARS —6 to 634 inches long, 8 rowed, very well shaped ear, well carried out to the 
tip end. 
KERNEL—Yellow, large, tender, sweet, of excellent flavor. Seed, yellow and wrinkled. 
GOLDEN EVERGREEN or BANTAM EVERGREEN (Midseason) CHOPS 
One of the best of the medium late varieties. Has a large ear, of excellent quality. 
STALKS— 634 to 734 feet tall, sturdy, vigorous. 
EARS —8 to 9 inches long, 12 to 14 rows, quite often 2 ears per plant, Stowell s Ever¬ 
green type. 
KERNEL— Rich golden yellow, broad, deep, tender, sweet, of excellent quality. Seed, 
yellow and very wrinkled. 
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