MARKET GARDENERS AND FLORISTS PRICE LIST —1939 
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CELERIAC—Turnip-Rooted or “Knob” Celery 
Oz. 34 lb. lb. 
LARGE SMOOTH PRAGUE. Best for Market . $ .25 S .75 $2.50 
This is the standard market garden variety. 
DELICACY. Grow for fine quality .30 .90 3.00 
This variety produces medium size bulbs of superior quality. 
Welschkorn ( Ger .) SWEET CORN 
Mais (It.) 
One pound of seed will plant 350 to 400 hills; 10 to 12 lbs. will plant an acre. A bushel weighs 48 lbs. 
At the prices here quoted, sweet corn is not prepaid. Purchaser pays transportation on sweet 
corn except as follows: If your order for vegetable seeds, including corn, amounts to $20.00 or 
more we will prepay the FREIGHT charges. Write for special prices on larger lots than quoted here. 
Harris’ Northern Grown 
Sweet Corn 
For many years we have made a spe¬ 
cialty of growing sweet corn seed of the 
highest quality here in the North and due 
to our careful scientific selection and 
breeding to improve the earliness, yield 
and quality, the demand for Harris’ Sweet 
Corn has grown so that we are now large 
producers of the best market varieties. 
Hybrid Sweet Corn 
The large number of hybrids now 
offered make it difficult for the grower to 
choose the best. Good hybrids can be pro¬ 
duced only from carefully selected pure 
line parent stocks and in the growing of 
hybrid seed corn constant detasseling of 
the seed parent is absolutely necessary. 
Many seed fields of hybrid corn are de- 
tasseled only three or four times but we 
find that it is necessary to go carefully 
through each of our fields twelve to fifteen 
times. This is expensive work but is the 
only way to grow first class hybrid. 
Hybrid sweet corn cannot be saved 
for seed the next year as it break down. 
Northern Cross 
Northern Cross. Note the large, uniform ears 
An Early and Tremendous Yielding Hybrid 
This new corn is without doubt the best hybrid of the Whipple’s Yellow type. 
It is a hybrid of great vigor, producing fine stands of strong sturdy plants which seem to grow 
by leaps and bounds and produce great crops of large even ears. There ai;e usually two and often 
three good ears to a plant. It is truly a tremendous vielder of fine large ears and fills the gap be¬ 
tween the extra early kinds and Whipple’s Yellow. 
These large ears are very uniform in size, fully eight inches long with 12-14 rows of bright 
yellow kernels and are very attractive in appearance. The quality is exceptionally high. 
This corn matures a few days before Whipple’s Yellow and from 10 to 12 days earlier than 
Golden Cross Bantam. 
Northern Cross is a product of our own breeding here in the North, being a cross between two 
of our own pure line inbreds and can be produced only by us. This fine corn is an outstanding 
market variety and urge our customers to make a planting this year. See prices on page 13. 
Caution : Northern Cross is not resistant to Stewart’s Disease (wilt). We advise growers in 
sections where wilt is prevalent to use Early Bancross 39 described on page 12. 
Golden Early Market (Gill’s)— Grow for Extra Early Large Ears 
This corn has become the most popular early variety because it produces large attractive 
ears very early and thus commands the highest prices. It is important to get true seed. 
We obtained our stock from the originators and have grown and improved it here in the North 
for the past six years. You can depend on the Harris’ stock of Golden Early Market to produce 
early crops of uniformly large fine ears. See prices on page 13. 
SWEET CORN continued on next page. 
