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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_9 (find matches)
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; Fruit trees
Publisher: Floral Park, N. Y. : John Lewis Childs
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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JOHN L€WIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y
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V ✓ Every family garden ought to have a selection of Sweet Corn, from the earliest to the latest varieties, Fine for drying, as well as for summer table use. Childs' Honey Dew—For years seedsmen have been work- ing to get a corn as early as the Cory, with large ear, white cob and superb qualities of the later varieties, at last have it. Childs' Honey Dew is not only the earliest, but has a good sized ear. white cob, and large, pearly kernels of the very finest quality, tender, sweet and nutritious. It also keeps in good coudition a long cime before hardening, and runs perfectly uniform, each ear exactly alike. It grows to medium height, and the ears are formed low and two to three on each stalk. Mr, Wil- lard, the extensive seed-corn grower of Weathersfield, Conn., says: "It is the finest Early Corn." It is the most profitable corn to plant, combining, as it does good size and color, luscious quality, handsome ap- pearance and long keeping, and earliest to mature. Pkt., loc.; pint, 30c.; quart, 5oc. "We will send a peck, by express, for $1.00. - Shoe Peg, Ne Plus Ultra or Quaker Sweet—One of the r very best eating varieties grown. An old sort, but none the less valuable on that account. Yery deep kernels of the sweetest and most appetizing flavor, and one of the best of all for drving and canning. A prolific and thor- oughly reliable Corn. Pkt.. 10c; pint, 25c.; quart, 40c. Early Maine, or June 21 st—This is one of the very earliest and by the way, one of the finest sorts grown. For an early variety it is of large size/with large pearly white kernels, which are very highly flavored. It is not sub- ject to the Corn disease, and is the surest cropper of any extra early sort. We can recommend it very highly. Pkt.. loc.: pint, 30c.; quart, 55c. . . Evergreen -The standard late sort, and probably the all- round best Sweet Corn grown. It has magnificent large ears, deep kernels, small cob, and possesses the finest flavor, being tender and juicy. A favorite with every- body, and must have a place in every garden. Pkt., 10c.; pint, 25C.; quart, 45c. EASTERN EARLY SWEET CORN. lastern Extra Early—This is perhaps the earliest of any Sweet Corn, and the largest and finest ear of all the extra- early varieties. It is a good yielder, two ears to a stalk being the rule. The kernels are large and white, with a pure white cob. Flavor extra fine and sweet. Mr. East- man, of Maine, a Sweet Corn fancier, spent many years in perfecting this variety which the New Hampshire Ex- periment Station pronounced the best among a test of 41 varieties combining earliness, quality and yield. Per pkt., 10c.; pint, 30c.; quart. 55c.

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