. Gregory's annual illustrated retail catalogue of warranted seeds, vegetable, flower and grain. LONGFELLOWS FIELD CORN. This line field com is the result of careful selection i:i a family of Massachusetts farmers for forty-five years. The ears are re-markably long, some of them fifteen inches, and oftentimes two or more good specimens grow on one stock. The cob is quitesmall. It is the largest kerneled variety of yellow field corn that I have ever found it safe to plant in the latitude of Massachu-setts, where it is quite extensively grown. Over two hundred bushels of cars have been raised to
. Gregory's annual illustrated retail catalogue of warranted seeds, vegetable, flower and grain. LONGFELLOWS FIELD CORN. This line field com is the result of careful selection i:i a family of Massachusetts farmers for forty-five years. The ears are re-markably long, some of them fifteen inches, and oftentimes two or more good specimens grow on one stock. The cob is quitesmall. It is the largest kerneled variety of yellow field corn that I have ever found it safe to plant in the latitude of Massachu-setts, where it is quite extensively grown. Over two hundred bushels of cars have been raised to the acre [in Massachusetts. Per pack-age. 10 cents; per quart, by mail, 53 cents; by express, 33 cent?; per peck.$; per bushel, $ Marblehead CANADA VICTOR TOMATO. This squash, as a rule, is characterized by a shell of a moreflinty hardness than the Hubbard. It is usually thicker andflatter at the top. It has a greater specific gravity. The fleshis of rather a lighter coior than the Hubbard, while its combi-nation, in good specimens, of sweetness, dryness and deliciousflavor is something really remarkable. Its outer color is alight blue. Price per lb., per express, ; pir mail, §;per oz., 15 cents; per package, G cents. SOYA BEAN (Sofa Hispida);or, Oleaginous Japaneso Pea. This is a half pea, half bean in ap-pearance, with singular leaves andpods. It is a prominent article of foodamong the Chinese and Japanese, andAvithin a few years has come into cul-tivation in Europe; and whether grownin China, France or Hungary, it main-tains the same fixed characteristics inits chemical composition and has beenpronounced by agricultural chemists tobe the richest of all human food. Itis hardy and productive and ripens asfar nor
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