. Gregory & Son's retail catalogue of warranted vegetable, flower and grain seeds . This fine field corn is the result of careful selection in a family of Massachusetts farmers for forty-five years. The ears areremarkably long, some of them fifteen inches, and oftentimes two or more good specimens grow on one stalk. The cob is quite is the largest variety of yellow field corn that I have ever found it safe to plant in the latitude of Massachusetts, where it is quiteextensively grown. Jonathan Skilton, Northboro, Mass., reports one hundred and fifteen bushels shelled corn from an acre.
. Gregory & Son's retail catalogue of warranted vegetable, flower and grain seeds . This fine field corn is the result of careful selection in a family of Massachusetts farmers for forty-five years. The ears areremarkably long, some of them fifteen inches, and oftentimes two or more good specimens grow on one stalk. The cob is quite is the largest variety of yellow field corn that I have ever found it safe to plant in the latitude of Massachusetts, where it is quiteextensively grown. Jonathan Skilton, Northboro, Mass., reports one hundred and fifteen bushels shelled corn from an acre. Thisis the variety that took the first premium among the flint corns at the great exhibition at Chicago a few years ago. Price, per pkg., 10cts.; per qt., post-paid, 40 cts.; by express, 25 cts.; ner peck, GO cts.; per bush., $ NE PLUS ULTRA (QUAKER SWEET) Under this latter name I introduced to the public, a number ofyears ago, a variety of sweet corn, since called the Ne PlusUltra, which Latin name translated into English would readThe unsurpassable corn. This corn has a very peculiar ap-pearance, the kernels being irregular in shape and distribution onthe cob. In the matter of sweetness and tenderness, — which,after all, are the special points with the gardener, — the Ne PlusUltra has never been surpassed, if, indeed, equalled. The earsare rather below medium size, but as an offset, several grow oneach stalk. Price per qt., post-paid, (iO cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. PERRYS HYBRID CORN. On my experimental grounds this has proved to be very early,and a remarkably large-eared sort for one so early. I would sug-gest to my farmer friends, that either this or the Boston Market,if planted at the same time, would follow, for marketing, just afterthe Cory. Price, per qt., post-paid, 35 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. ORIGINAL CROSBYS CORN. This is jus
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