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VEGETABLE SLEDS 
VICK’S garden: and floral guide 
CORN, METROPOLITAN 
CORN, PREMO 
Auburn, N. Y., Nov. 8, 1902. 
I have grown several varieties of Sweet Corn, but ne ver any that had so 
many good qualities as your Premo. It has no equal that I know of. 
Gratefully yours, 
C. F. Bakbrk. 
POP CORN 
I he following are the most popular varieties: 
Shelled corn, % pint, 10 cents ; pint, 20 cents ; quart, 35 cents. 
White Rice. The most popular for general use. 
Queen S Golden. Pops creamy white. 
Silver Lace. The best white-grained variety. 
SWEET CORN 
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 bills, three feet apart for the earliest varieties, and 
three and a half to four feet for the later ones. One quart will plant 
200 hills; 8 to 10 quarts for an acre in hills. 
*4 pint, 10 cents ; pint, 20 cents; quart, 35 cents; 
except as noted. 
FIRST EARLY VARIETIES 
Vicks Earliest of All. This is xnfact the ** earliest of all ." Very excel¬ 
lent, tender, and sweet. Similar in appearance to Cory, hut 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. 
Packet, 10 cents ; J 4 pt., 15 cents; pt., 25 cents ; qt., 40 cents. 
Mammoth White 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 for best trade should plant 
this variety. 
Extra Early Red Cob Cory. Well known extra early sort, closely 
resembling Earliest of All. 
Premo. This new sort combines all the good qualities of the later sorts, is 
much hardier, and may be planted some days earlier without danger of rotting. 
It is a vigorous grower; stalks about 5 feet high, bearing two well developed ears 
to a stalk. It is earlier than Extra Early Adams or Fordhook Early. The ears 
are of good size, 8 to to rowed, resembling White Cory. It is certainly an acqui¬ 
sition to the Corn family, and when better known will he exceedingly popular. 
Packet, 15 cents ; ^ pt., 20 cents ; pt., 35 cents ; qt., 60 cents. 
Metropolitan. 'I'he new Metropolitan combines the essential features 
of carliness 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 4 en to twelve-rowed, well filled out, and set low on the 
stalk; the kernels are exceedingly white in color during the eatable condition. 
Packet, 10 cents ; % pt., 15 cents ; pt., 25 cents ; qt., 40 cents. 
Kendel’s Early Giant. 
Corns. It comes in soon after the Cory. Ears eight to ten inches long, twelve 
to eighteen-rowed, filled well to the tip with broad, white, sweet kernels of 
excellent flavor. Stalks short, bearing one to two ears. 
Early Minnesota. An old and deservedly popular variety. Rather dwarf. 
Ears fine, of good sweet quality. Desirable for both the market and private garden. 
Cosmopolitan. The best large early main crop true Sweet Corn 
yet introduced. In size of cars and fine quality it equals the best second earlies. 
Stalks five to six feet high ; ears nine inches long, filled to the very tip with ten 
or more rows of large grains. Cob pure white. Its attractive appearance, fine 
quality,and carliness, will recommend it to market gardeners and private families. 
Packet, 10 cents ; l / 2 pt., 15 cents ; pt., 25 cents ; qt., 40 cents. 
Extra Early Adams or Burlington. Not a Sweet Corn, but the hardi¬ 
est, earliest field variety for table use, particularly in the South. It has a short 
ear, with white, round, indented kernels. 
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. 
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. 
Russell S Prolific. A superior early variety ; one of the sweetest of the early 
sorts, and excellent for drying and sugaring. Ears eight to ten inches in length 
Moore S Early Concord. This is a popular, well-known, second early 
sort, producing large, handsome, fourteen to sixteen-rowed ears of very white, 
sweet, square grain. An excellent sort to follow Crosby’s Early. 
