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CONCORD. 
RUSSELL S PROLIFIC. MINNESOTA. 
CORN. 
Below we give the earliest, medium and latest varie¬ 
ties of Sweet Corn. The engravings show different 
varieties, both as to form and comparative size, as 
nearly, perhaps, as it is possible to do in engravings 
of this character. Sweet 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 
likely to rot. It will decay in places where our com¬ 
mon field corn will grow, and the sweeter and purer the 
less hardships it will bear. 
Always select a warm soil for Sweet Corn if possible, 
especially for the earlier varieties, as the difference in 
soil and exposure will make at least a week’s difference 
in the time of maturity, besides insuring a crop. We 
have taken the greatest possible pains to secure very 
choice Sweet Corn. The Minnesota, which we intro¬ 
duced some years since, is still the best very early Corn. 
Corn, Early Minnesota, by far the best very 
curly Sweet Corn we have ever tried. Plant 
rather dwarf, ears fine for so early a variety, 
and of good quality ; per pint 25 cents, .... 10 
Marblehead Early Sweet. The earliest of 
all the varieties of Sweet Corn. Habit dwarf ; 
ears small; very sweet; per pint 25 cents, . . 10 
Russell’s Prolific, a very superior early variety. 
It is the earliest first-class Sweet Corn. Ears 
eight to ten inches in length ; per pint 25 cents, 10 
Crosby’s Early, nearly as early as Russell’s 
Prolific, ears not much larger than the Minne¬ 
sota, kernels small, twelve rowed. A very 
desirable Corn for the private garden; pint 
25 cents, . 10 
Moore’s Early Concord, a very good Corn, 
very much prized in the neighborhood of Bos¬ 
ton ; ears large ; ripens after Russell’s, and in 
carliness about with Early Eight Rowed, or 
Crosby’s ; per pint 25 cents,. 10 
Early Eight-rowed Sugar, following Crosby’s 
Early in time of maturity ; excellent; ears about 
nine inches long and very fine; pint 25 cents., 10 
Hickox Improved, a new and valuable variety 
for market, of the very best quality; per pint 25 
cents. 10 
Corn, Potter’s Excelsior, new; a very sweet, 
rich-flavored, white sweet Corn; pint 25 cens, 10 
Triumph, the earliest of the large varieties; very 
sweet, rich, and delicate ; per pint 25 cents, . 10 
Stowell’s Evergreen, late; very select and 
pure; an excellent variety, remaining in a 
green state longer than any other kind ; per pint 
25 cents, . 10 
Egyptian, or Washington Market, tall; very 
late, coming in after Stowell’s Evergreen; sweet 
and rich; per pint 25 cents,. 10 
Mammoth Sugar, one of the largest varieties, 
and very late; twelve to sixteen-rowed ; pro¬ 
ductive and fine flavored ; per pint 25 cents, . . 10 
Black Mexican, a rather short, black variety, 
very sweet and delicious ; per pint 25 cents, . . 10 
Early Adams, a very early and good table va¬ 
riety, though not a Sweet Corn ; kernels white ; 
per pint 25 cents, . 10 
Parching, best white ; per pint 25 cents, ... 10 
CUCUMBER. 
In this latitude it is useless to plant in the open 
ground until nearly the first of June. Make rich hills 
of well-rotted manure, two feet in diameter, and plant 
a dozen or more seeds, covering half an inch deep. 
When all danger from insects is over, pull all but three 
or four of the strongest plants. The middle of June is 
early enough to plant for pickling. Make the hills about 
six feet apart. For early Cucumbers, the hot-bed is 
necessary; but the simplest and surest way to produce 
a tolerably early crop of the best kinds is, where it is 
designed to place a hill, dig a hole about eighteen in¬ 
ches deep and three feet across ; into this put a barrow 
of fresh manure, and cover with a small box-like frame, 
on the top of which place a couple of lights of glass. 
When the plants grow, keep the earth drawn up to the 
stems. Water, and give air. 
The Foreign Varieties, represented by the long 
specimen in the engraving, are of fine quality and of 
wonderful size, often two feet in length, but they re¬ 
quite a hot-bed to help them along until the weather 
is warm. In Europe they arc grown in glass houses. 
