CELERY 
Start in shaded hotbed 60 days be- 
fore needed. Cover seed 14”. Trans- 
plant when 6” high, In setting out- 
doors, don’t get soil in or over 
crown. Set 7” to 12” apart. Soil 
must be rich, moist and loose, As 
soon as plants have grown to 14” 
to 15” tall, set 12” boards on both 
sides of row and hold in place with 
earth. Or 4” drain tile can be used 
to blanch individual stalks, Celery 
must have warm, settled weather: 
if chilled, plants are likely to go to 
seed. Keep soil well fertilized and 
moist. Crop matures in cool weather 
of autumn, 
Golden Self Blanching, Dwarf—Com- 
pact plants, yellowish green foliage. 
Broad solid stalks, nutty flavor, Blanches 
readily. 120 days. 
COLLARDS 
Sow seed heavily and transplant 
when 4” high; or sow in rows in 
permanent beds and thin to 16” to 
18” apart when plants are well 
started. 
Cabbage Collards—Combines qualities 
of cabbage and collards, but finer fla- 
vored than either. 
Southern or Georgia—An_ excellent 
cooked green. Long stemmmed plant, 
with clustered leaves. Withstands heat 
and bad soil. 24 to 36 days. 
SWEET CORN 
CORN, 15c PKT 
For the home gardener, the simplest 
way to plant sweet corn is in rows 
or drills, not in hills. Plant on north 
side of garden or so late summer 
shade from your corn does not retard 
growth of other nearby vegetables. 
Space the rows 36” apart, and plant 
a seed about every 3”. Thin stalks 
to stand 9” to 12” apart in row. The 
drill should be 3” to 4” deep, but 
don't cover seed with more than 1” 
of soil. The drill or furrow can be 
filed in as the plants grow to 
anchor them against the wind. 
In hills, plant 4 to 6 grains per hill. 
Later thin to 2 to 3 stalks to a hill. 
Space several plantings at intervals 
of 14 days for continuous crop. 
Removing suckers has been standard 
practice with practically all growers. 
Now, experiments prove that remov- 
ing suckers merely takes away extra 
food-producing leaves and so hurts 
tather 
suckering 
Also, 
roots 
growth. 
disturbs 
than helps 
often 
Most Sweet Corn is really sweet only if it is home grown. As soon as it’s picked, the 
sugar begins to turn to starch, and six hours after it’s picked, most of the sweetness is 
gone. Illustrated above showing comparative row and kernel characteristics are (1) Gold- 
en Bantam (2) Golden Cross Bantam (3) Country Gentleman. 
enough to injure plant. Always 
plant corn in several short rows side 
by side rather than one long row. 
Corn is pollinated by wind and rows 
side-by-side mean that all the stalks 
can be reached by the pollen. Many 
home gardeners, on reading newspa- 
per accounts of corn de-tasseling, 
assume that this is necessary to set 
ears. On the contrary, removing 
tassels may cut the crop seriously. 
Detasseling is only done where 
hybrid corn is raised for seed pur- 
poses. The more pollen that flies, 
the better the set of kernels. So 
don’t detassel sweet corn in the 
home garden. If weeds are under 
control, stop cultivating. If weeds are 
bad late in the season, work the 
soil as shallow as possible to avoid 
injuring surface feeder roots. 
Hybrids 
We offer Hybrid Sweet Corn varieties 
known as the best for your garden— 
the finest that can be procured any- 
where. We list here only a few of these 
choice kinds. Whatever your needs or 
your preference, be sure we can supply 
you with the kind of corn you want. 
Talk it over with us. 
Golden Cross Bantam (fr}—Extremely 
uniform. Ears 10 to 14 rows, slightly 
lighter yellow than Golden Bantam. 
Highly resistant to Stewart's disease, 85 
days. 
Ioana (fr)—1940 All-America. Ears 7¥2 
to 8-in., well-filled with 12 or 14 rows 
of deep, medium narrow, light yellow 
kernels. Highly resistant to drought and 
bacteria wilt. 87 days. 
Open-Pollinated 
Country Gentleman or Shoe Peg (fr)— 
Prolific late variety. Favored by can- 
ners. Irregular kernels, very deep, 
sweet. 93 days. 
Golden Bantam (fr)—The best and most 
favorably known of all the yellow va- 
rieties. Stalks often have 2 ears. Ears 
8 rowed, kernels broad, with tender 
hull. 
Stowell’s Evergreen—White. Large ears 
about 8” long. Big kernels. Very sweet. 
Good late variety. 93 days. 
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SMART THINNING CAN INCREASE YIELD 
There is no satisfactory way to avoid 
thinning. When too many come up, be 
thankful and consider the thinning out as 
an opportunity to select the best plants 
as the ones to survive. 
For best results, thinning should be 
done gradually. In case of a crop which 
grows best when the plants stand four 
inches apart, do not at first thin it to 
one plant for each four inches. 
It is foolish to discard all excess plants 
prematurely when accidents, insects or 
disease may destroy many which are left. 
If thinning is done by stages as the plants 
grow, they will finally stand at the opti- 
mum distance from each other, and there 
will be small chance of vacant spaces in 
the row. 
Lettuce plants, thinned to stand an inch 
apart, will soon reach a size when alter- 
nate plants can be removed to make a 
salad; and this process may be continued 
until the spacing is right for the remain- 
ing plants to mature, 
Carrots may be thinned the first time 
when they are as thick as a pencil; and 
a dish of the thinnings will give those 
who have never eaten such tiny carrots 
before, a new idea of this vegetable. 
Beets may be allowed to grow until 
about six inches tall, when their roots 
have just begun to swell. 
