MAMMOTH 
WHITE CORY 
GROWING CROP 
SWEET 
OF HIAWATHA 
CORN 
SWEET CORN 
HIAWATHA 
S WEET CORN should not be. planted very early in the season, 
for it will not make any progress until the weather is warm, 
and will be very apt to rot. It will decay in places where our 
common field Corn will grow, and the sweeter and purer the less 
hardship it will bear. Always select a warm soil for Sweet Corn, 
if possible, especially for the early varieties, as the difference in soil 
and exposure will make a week’s difference in the time of maturity, 
besides ensuring a crop. Plant in hills, three feet apart for the 
earliest varieties, and three and a half to four feet for the late ones. 
One quart will plant 200 hills; 8 to 10 quarts for an acre in hills. 
Packet, 10 cents ; pint, 15 cents ; pint, 20 cents; 
quart, 35 cents. 
First Early Varieties 
Vick S Earliest of All. This is in /act the “earliest of all." Very 
excellent, tender, and sweet. Similar in appearance to Cory, but superior in 
quality. To market gardeners this variety is of great value, as the first 
Sweet Corn will bring two or three times the price it commands when the 
supply becomes general. 
Mammoth White Cory. 
inal Cory. In fact our selection of seed stock and careful growing of this 
strain make it the largest and best extra early in our list. The stalks are no 
larger than those of the White Cob Cory, while each stalk bears two or more 
large, fine-shaped ears, twelve-rowed, and covered with large, broad, white 
grain ; remarkable for its good quality for so early a sort. All gardeners who 
cater to the best trade should plant this variety. 
J^olltan* The new Metropolitan combines the essential 
features of earliness and fine quality to a more satisfactory degree than any 
of the other first early varieties. The plant grows five to six feet in height ; 
the ears average nine inches long, arc 10 to 12 rowed, well filled out, and 
set low on the stalk; the kernels are exceedingly white in color. 
Early Minnesota. An old and popular dwarf variety. Ears fine, of good 
sweet quality. Desirable for both the market and private garden 
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New Early Sweet Corn, Hia- 
A new variety of unusual merit. Early, productive and 
'^ c *^’** c ** quality of unsurpassed sweetness. Grown on our farm 
last summer, it proved to be the best of all the early white sorts. From five 
to six feet tall; ears seven to eight inches in length, and fourteen to sixteen 
rows of tender, juicy kernels. It is a desirable variety for either the home 
garden or the market gardener. The above illustration is a photograph of 
the growing crop on our Despatch farm. Packet, 10 cents ; J 4 pint, 
15 cents ; pint, 25 cents : quart, 45 cents. 
Extra Early Golden Bantam. 
The Golden Bantam is early, very hardy and will stand planting earlier in 
the season than other varieties. It grows about four feet high, bearing one to 
two medium sized ears of a rich, golden, yellow color. When cooked is ex¬ 
ceedingly sweet and tender, an ideal sort for the home garden. It resembles 
very closely the Golden Nugget, introduced by us in 1892, the stock of which 
was lost a year or two later, owing to failure of the crop. Packet, 10 cents; 
l A pint, 15 cents ; pint, 25 cents ; quart, 45 cents. 
Kendel's Early Giant. This variety is one of the 
largest early Sweet Corns. It comes in soon after the Cory. Ears eight 
to ten inches long, 12 to 18 rowed, filled well to the tip with broad, white, 
sweet kernels of excellent flavor. Stalks short, bearing one to two ears. 
Medium and Second Early 
Crosby’s Early. Excellent. Remarkably early and of best flavor. 
Ears medium size; twelve-rowed ; grains sweet and thick. Largely grown 
for canning. 
Perry’s Hybrid Sugar. A very popular and a remark¬ 
ably long-eared sort for one so early. Ears ready for use a few days later 
than Early Cory and Minnesota, but double the size of either. Ears twelve- 
rowed ; kernels large, tender, and deliciously sweet. Stalks of great vigor, 
about six feet high, with two perfect ears to the stalk. 
Early Evergreen. This fine variety is ten to twelve days earlier than 
Stowell’s, and though it is not quite as large, it yields large, handsome, ten 
or twelve-rowed ears. An excellent variety to follow Moore's Early Concord. 
