263 DANDELION 
Valued for early boiled greens, and for salad. May be 
blanched by tying up. Sow early. Cutting may begin in 
September, but it’s really the early spring cuttings to 
which one looks forward. IMPROVED THICK LEAF. 
Pkt. 10c; %4 02. 25c. 

Give thanks for little things, for bit by bit these 
build our time. The strength of our understanding does 
not reach beyond. 
SWEET CORN 
It is the distinction, the culmination, of the American 
garden, and unfortunate is the garden that does not have 
space for it. If you have only tasted the corn of the 
markets, good as that can be. then you have never really 
known Sweet Corn at its best. Only your own garden can 
introduce you to that. Cultural leaflet comes with seeds. 
191 TRUE GOLDEN BANTAM—80 days. The original 
strain, just eight rows, but those rows all of a tender de- 
licious honey sweetness that has never been excelled by 
any other Sweet Corn, any time, anywhere. The variety we 
grow for our own table. Ears six inches, plants six feet. 
Pkt 107) Ibe 25c3e) 1b. 40¢ 7 2elbs focseD wlb ae oletoc 
202 BIG GOLDEN BAN- 
TAM—83 days. Selected for 
larger size. Ears usually 12 
rows (but sometimes 10 or 
14), ears longer, growth 
stronger than the original 
Golden Bantam, to which it 
is otherwise close. Quality 
very good. Pkt. 10c; % |b. 
25c 201 lb. 400s, 2elbia(beseb 
lb. $1.75. 
196 VANGUARD—75 days. 
A first-early white Sweet 
Corn of rich, sugary flavor. 
Ears about 7 inches long, 
12 to 14 rows. Heavy yield- 
er. Illustrated opposite. 
Pkt= 1L0e.24 lbae2bee le lb: 
A5e. 2 Ib- 80c; 5 Jb. $1.90. 
192 HOWLING MO B—85. 
The name is hardly con- 
servative, but then neither 
is the quality, for it is just 
about the sweetest and ten- 
derest of anything yet in 
the way of a large-eared 
white second-early. Thin- 
skinned kernels of melting 
sugar-richness. Big 8-inch 
ears, usually two to a stalk. 
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1933 BANTAM EVER- 
GREEN—89 days. Ears to 
9 inches long with 12 to 20 
rows of yellow, lusciously 
sweet kernels. A cross of 
Golden Bantam and Ever- 
green, good qualities com- 
bined. Pkt. 10c; 1% Ib. 25c; 
imib. 40c <3 lb. $1.10: 
195 STOWELL’S EVER- 
GREEN—95 days. Big, long, 
fat ears, white kerneled, of 


sugar-sweet tender good- 
ness. The largest - eared 
corn, and the ears keep in 
sweet juicy table condition 
for several days longer than do any of the others. An old 
favorite, and for excellent reason. Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 25c; 1 
Ib: 40c > -2-]b. 15¢3%5" lb. $1.65: 
194 COUNTRY GENTLEMAN—95 days. Exceedingly deep, 
rather narrow kernels are crowded together in irregular 
shoe-peg fashion, no rows. Table quality is of the very 
highest, always rich, creamy, of honey sweetness. Everyone 
who tries it, likes this highly distinct white sort. Pkt. 
10c; 14 Ib.25e3 1 Ib.) 40c; 2 1b. 7T5c; 5 Ib. $1.75: 
198 GOLDEN COLONEL—90 days. The butter-yellow coun- 
terpart of the white Country Gentleman, with the same 
crowded kernels of luscious, tender sugariness. Pkt. 10c; 
14 Ib. 25c; 1 Ib. 45¢; 2 Ib. 80c. 
Laval 
THE HYBRID SWEET CORNS 
Strains in this group are produced through controlled pol- 
lination. They mature more evenly than do the regular or 
open-pollinated corns, all ears ready at once, a character- 
istic that market growers like. They are heavy yielders, 
and they show varying, but always considerable, degree of 
resistance to bacterial wilt, a disease that occasionally at- 
tacks Sweet Corn. Remember, though, that if you want a 
variety that ripens a bit unevenly, as most home gardeners 
do, so that you can pick from the same patch for several 
days, then you should not choose from the Hybrid group. 
Neither can you save your own seed of Hybrid Sweet Corns, 
since the production of them requires special training. 
199 MARCROSS—70 days. A first early light yellow, 12- 
rowed ears of very high table quality. Strongly disease- 
resistant. Pkt. 15c; % Ib. 35c; 1 Ib. 65c; 3° Ib. $1.85. 
203 GOLDEN CROSS BANTAM—79 days. It really is 
Golden Bantam, a cross of two line-bred strains of that 
variety. Ears about 8 inches long, 10 to 14 rows, usually 
two ears to a stalk. Particularly good, sweet flavor. Pkt. 
15c; % Ib. 35c; 1 Ib. 65c; 3 Ib. $1.85. 
200 IOANA—86 days. A high quality, sugary yellow that 
just nicely follows Golden Bantam in season. Exceedingly 
prolific. Ears 8-inch, 12 to 14 rows. Resistant to wilt and 
smut. Pkt. 15c; 1% lb. 35c; 1 lb. 65c; 3 Ib. $1.85. 
201 HYBRID BLEND—We have mixed seeds of several 
Hybrid Corns, including the three above, that ripen at 
different successive periods. The home gardener should 
find this blend useful, for it offers him the advantages of 
the Hybrid Sweet Corns, while still allowing him to pick 
from the same single planting over a considerable time 
period. Pkt. 15c; % lb. 35c; 1 lb. 65c; 3 Ibs. for $1.85. 
229 FLINT CORN 
The Flint Corns make the richest flavored corn meals, 
and thereby the most delicious of jonnycakes, and they 
are used, too, for the old time samp or lye hominy, and 
for the hominy grits of the South. You may be fortunate 
enough to find some mill near that will do custom grind- 
ing, or small hand mills operating with a crank may be 
purchased at low cost, and corn meal ground at home as 
you are ready to use it. Hominy, of course, can be made 
at home. Ask for our leaflet ‘“‘Use of the Garden’’, it 
tells you how. We offer seeds of a fine yellow Flint Corn. 
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Of those who work with their heads, trust first the 
one who likes also to work with his hands. 

277 GOLD-BERRY—Sorry, already sold out. Plantings in- 
ereased, should be plenty next year. 
EGGPLANT 
Not at all hard to grow, given handling of Tomato and 
when you grow your own Eggplant, you can be sure of 
having them ready for table at just the right stage, before 
the delicate flavor has been injured. 
264 BLACK BEAUTY—80 days. The most popular home 
garden sort, for it is fairly early, and as sure a cropper 
as an Eggplant can be. The plants are rather dwarf, 
thornless, and yield heavily of large and firm fruits of a 
rich, black-purple coloring. Table quality is not excelled 
by any other. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 30c. 
267 NEW HAMPSHIRE HYBRID—Our earliest, 
earlier than even Kissin. Oval fruits 
somewhat smaller than in Black Beauty. Quality very 
good indeed. Enormously prolific. For northern gardens, 
or first early anywhere. Pkt. 15c; 1% oz. 35c. 
265 KISSIN—Almost as early as New Hampshire. Deep 
purple fruits about 6 inches long by 3 through, an easy- 
slicing shape. Pkt. 10c; 1%4 oz. 35e¢. 
640 DILL 
The one indispensable herb. Used in making pickles, and 
home made dill pickles, from your own cucumbers and 
slightly 
of purple-violet, 
your own dill, can be better than any. you buy. Our 
leaflet ““‘Use of the Garden”, tells you just how to make 
them. Ask for it when you order. Even though you make 
no pickles, you still need Dill, for the leaves and young 
stems are used in flavoring soups and various sauces, in 
certain relishes, and sometimes they are minced and a 
bit mixed with lettuce in salad. Of easy growing in any 
garden. Pkt 10c; 1 oz. 30c. 
