. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm & garden. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Geneeal List of Choice Vegetable Seeds. 17 CORN==Table and Sugar Varieties. For descriptions and information about Field Corns, see Field Seed pages. Sweet or sugar corns are so far superior in flavor and tenderness that it is surprising that any one should be satisfied with field corns for the table. Culture.—Plant the early coru6 in well-manured gro
. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm & garden. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Geneeal List of Choice Vegetable Seeds. 17 CORN==Table and Sugar Varieties. For descriptions and information about Field Corns, see Field Seed pages. Sweet or sugar corns are so far superior in flavor and tenderness that it is surprising that any one should be satisfied with field corns for the table. Culture.—Plant the early coru6 in well-manured ground last of March or early in April. Su<?ar corn should not be planted until the ground gets warm. Cultivate deeply and often, and continue planting at intervals of about two weeks for a succession of roasting ears. The early varieties of sugar corn can be planted during July for late roasting-ears. One quart will plant two hundred hills, and from six to eight quarts one acre. Add 15 cents per quart, 10 cents per pint, if to be sent by mail. The first five varieties are not sugar corns, but valuable on account of their earliiiess: Truckers' Favorite. This splendid new corn gave the most unbounded satisfaction to our trucker and market- gardener customers the past season. It makes a large and better shaped ear than Early Adams, and is very nearly as quick in maturity. It is particularly at- tractive in appearance, and makes one of the best sellers of any roasting-ear corn grown. For fuller information of this variety, see page 5. Pkt. 10c.; qt. 25c.; peck, 90c.; bushel, $; doz. ears, 30c. Extra Early Adams. The earliest white corn in cultiva- tion; makes a small ear and stalk, and can be planted close together. Pkt. 5c.; pt. 10c.; qt. 15c.; peck, 75c.; bushel, $; doz. ears, 25c. Early Adams, or Burlington. Similar to the Extra Early Adams, but a little later, and makes larger ears. It is earlier and hardier than any of the sugar corns, and as it makes a small stalk,
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