Garden and farm manual : 1905 . y mail, postpaid; by express or freight, quart, 35c; peck, $; bushel, $ Holmes9 Premo 60-Day Sweet Corn Mr. C. S. Clark and several other expert corn growers pronounce this new variety from five to sevendays earlier than any other sweet corn in existence. In our own tests the past season it gave us goodboiling ears ahead of all other corn planted, with the single exception of the New Buck combines all the merits of the leading early varieties, and is also really superior to many of them insize, quality and yield. Holmes Premo can be planted
Garden and farm manual : 1905 . y mail, postpaid; by express or freight, quart, 35c; peck, $; bushel, $ Holmes9 Premo 60-Day Sweet Corn Mr. C. S. Clark and several other expert corn growers pronounce this new variety from five to sevendays earlier than any other sweet corn in existence. In our own tests the past season it gave us goodboiling ears ahead of all other corn planted, with the single exception of the New Buck combines all the merits of the leading early varieties, and is also really superior to many of them insize, quality and yield. Holmes Premo can be planted fully as early as the Adams, for the young plantswithstand slight frosts, while other varieties are tender and the seed will rot if planted before the soilbecomes warm. The stalks grow about 5 feet high and are very vigorous, generally bearing two well-developed ears to a stalk. Pkt., 10c; pint, 25c; quart, 40c, postpaid; by express or freight, qt., 30c;peck, $ ; bush., $ H> JOHNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA <^h. Myers Quick-GrowingWhite Plume Celery A new strain of White Plume Celery, selected andimproved by Myers <fc Bowman, the well-known Phila-delphia market gardeners. It is unquestionably theearliest celery known, being ready for market 10 days to2 weeks earlier than any other strnin. It differs alsofrom the old White Plume in size and habit, somewhatresembling the Paris Golden Self-Blanching, but morestocky and robust, throwing out from 8 to 12 are very light in color and entirely free fromgreen celery. It has proven to be by far the handsomest,best and most salable early celery that has been offeredon Philadelphia markets the past three seasons. Choice home-grown seed, per pkt., 15c; oz., 45c;%lb., ; lb., JOHNSON* & STOKES. Dear Sirs:—I send you to-day a photograph of abunch of 12 stalks of Myers Quick-Growing WhitePlume Celery trimmed ready for the table. The bunchweighs 8 lbs. Had it not been for the extremely back-ward season
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