Hybrid Sweet Corn, Carmelcross 
SWEET CORN, continued 
OPEN POLLINATED, Yellow 
Golden Bantam. 80 days. A famous Sweet Corn, 
one of the oldest on the market and considered by 
many to be the best of all. The plants grow about 
6 feet tall, bear 8-rowed ears 51% to 6% inches long. 
eRire golden kernels are broad, deep and delicious. 
Golden Bantam Improved. 83 days. Developed from 
Golden Bantam and remains tender and sweet 
longer than Golden Bantam. Rows 10 to 14. 
Golden Evergreen. 90 days. A variety with long ears 
and deep grains similar to Stowell’s, except that 
grains are golden yellow and very sweet. 
Golden Giant. 88 days. Midseason variety, being 
about five days later than the Bantam varieties, 
and bearing long ears having 12 to 16 rows of golden 
yellow kernels. It 1s popular for both home- and 
market-garden planting. 
Golden Sunshine. 74 days. Stalks 41% to 5 feet high; 
ears 6 inches long. Rows 10 to io: tender, sweet, 
excellent for home-and market-garden. 
Whipple’s Early Yellow. 84 days. A splendid variety 
with sturdy stalks and 12- or 14-rowed ears filled 
to tips with golden yellow kernels of good flavor. 
Richly sweet. 
FIELD CORN 
Plant 12 to 15 pounds per acre. 
Bristol Early Yellow (White Capped Yellow Dent). 
100 days. Grains are yellow with white dented cap 
on top. Ears 10 inches long, with 12 rows of kernels, 
on stalks 7 to 71% feet high. Cob is white. 
Golden Dent. 110 days. Grains are golden yellow with 
dented cap on top. Ears 8 to 9 inches long, with 12 
to 14 rows, on stalks 8 to 9 feet tall. Cob is red. 
Lancaster Sure Crop. 110 days. Grains are deep yellow 
and broad. Ears 11 inches Jong, with 12 to 14 rows, 
on stalks 8 to 10 feet tall. Especially adapted for thin 
soil. Cob is red. 
Leaming. 105 days. Grains of rich golden color. Ears 
7 to 8 inches Jong, with 16 to 18 rows, on stalks 9 
feet tall. Small red cob. 
U. S. No. 13 Hybrid. 115 days. A high-yielding variety 
and a good silage producer recommended throughout 
the Eastern States. Stalks 12 feet; ears 12 inches; 
20 rows of deep, yellow grains. 
DAVID LANDRETH, Owner 
POP CORN 
Queen’s Golden. 115 days. Golden yellow kernels 
popping creamy white. Stalks 5 feet; ears 6 inches. 
White Rice. 110 days. Pearly white kernels popping 
pure white. Stalks 5 feet; ears 6 inches. 
DANDELION 
Cabbaging or Improved Thick-Leaved. 6() days. Pro- 
duces broad, thick leaves and is full-hearted. Fine 
as an early salad. 
French Garden. 55 days. Not so strong in growth as 
Cabbaging, but a very good variety. 
Italian (Ciccoria; Catalogna). Although a member of 
the chicory family listed as Asparagus Chicory, it is 
better known as Italian Dandelion. A favorite salad 
of the Italians and grown extensively by market 
gardeners. 
EGGPLANT 
Cutrure.—The Eggplant will thrive well in any garden 
soil but will repay good treatment. Seed should be sown 
in a hotbed or warm greenhouse and when about an inch 
high, transferred to 2-inch pots. If no hotbed is at hand, 
they can be grown in any light room where the temperature 
will average 75 degrees. Plant 21% feet apart. 
Black Beauty. 80 days. The Black Beauty originated 
in South Jersey. It combines in itself many char- 
acteristics which are very valuable in this vegetable. 
In the first place it is very early, in fact, the earliest 
good market variety. 
Fort Myers Market. 83 days. Southeastern variety 
with tall plant, holding fruits off the ground; vigorous 
and disease-resistant. Deep black color; long oval 
shape without neck. 
Manatee Special. 80 days. High-bush plant type 
with black oval fruits like Black Beauty, held well 
off the ground. Very early, hardy, prolific and 
withstands adverse weather conditions. 
New York Improved. 83 days. This is probably the 
oldest and best-known variety on the market. It is 
early and produces 4 to 6 very large fruit of excellent 
quality. 
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