MARKET GARDENERS AND FLORISTS PRICE LIST—1936 
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Harris’ Extra Early Bantam Sweet Corn 
The Best Extra Early Yellow Kind 
Northern Grown Seed—grown under our careful supervision on nearby farms from our own 
selected stock seed. 
This excellent variety has proved to be a real money maker for growers and we consider it to 
be one of the best all around extra early yellow kinds that has ever been introduced. 
The ears of Harris’ Extra Early Bantam are up to 7 inches long and have 8 to 10 rows of 
golden yellow kernels. They are just like Golden Bantam in appearance and quality but they 
mature 10 days earlier. 
The yield is heavy. We know of no corn maturing so early which will produce such a large 
number of fine ears as Harris’ Extra Early Bantam. The whole crop can be picked and sold before 
the market becomes flooded with the later kinds. See prices on next page. 
Hybrid Sweet Corn 
Hybrid Sweet Corn has taken a very definite place among the lists of sweet corn 
varieties and deservedly so. However, there are so many hybrids that there is a great deal 
of confusion in regard to their merit and uses. Many assume that a variety is good simply 
because it is a hybrid, which is not true. 
We have tried in our trial grounds and by observation to keep pace with the work be¬ 
ing done and to select the varieties best suited to our customers needs. From the long list 
we have selected two which we think will be of most value to our customers. These are 
the well known Golden Cross Bantam and Early Bancross 39 described below. 
Early Bancross 39 
A New Early Crossed Corn 
This hybrid sweet corn will be found a profitable 
variety to grow—especially in areas where varieties resist¬ 
ant to wilt (Stewart’s Disease) must be used. 
Our seed of this new hybrid has been produced on our 
own farm by a top cross of Purdue 39 on our own selected 
stock seed of Harris’ Extra Early Bantam. In our 1935 
trials the ears matured 2 to 3 days earlier than Golden 
Bantam and 10 days earlier than Golden Cross Bantam. 
The ears are very attractive, 73^ to 8 inches long 
cylindrical and with 10 to 14 rows of bright yellow kernels. 
The plant is rugged and prolific, with the majority of the 
plants producing two good ears. 
As is true with all crossed corn, seed produced from 
this seed should not be saved to sow next year. 
See prices on next page. 
Golden Cross Bantam 
Wilt Resistant—High Yielding—Uniformly Large Ears 
Sow not more than Six Pounds per Acre 
This Hybrid corn has become a standard variety for 
growing not only in areas which are infected with Stewart’s 
Disease (wilt) but also in many other places that grow 
canning and market corn. There is much inferior seed of 
this variety being sold so the important thing now is to get 
seed which has been properly grown; that is seed grown 
from pure parent stocks and which have been carefully 
crossed. Every pound of the seed we offer was grown here 
in Western New York from pure line parents and was 
thoroughly detasseled. This is the only way that pure 
Golden Cross Bantam can be produced. 
This corn produces large crops of beautiful ears. The 
ears having 10 to 14 rows of light golden yellow kernels, 
remarkably uniform in length (about 8 in.) and of 
excellent quality. They mature about a week later than 
Golden Bantam, the whole crop ripening at nearly the 
same time. 
As is true with all crossed corn, crops produced from 
this seed should not be saved for seed next year. 
See prices on next page. 
Early Bancross 39 
