. Gregory & Son's retail catalogue of warranted vegetable, flower and grain seeds . m iiii. THE CORY CORN. This new sweet corn, which I introduced in 1885,has proveditself to be earlier and larger kernelled than the Marblehead, beingthe earliest of all the numerous varieties now known. Mr. Charles N. Dyer saidthat he had raised theEarly Marblehead side byside with the Cory, andfound that the Cory was afew days earlier ; it made alarger and more present-able ear for marketing, thehusk covering the tip of theear better than was the casewith the Marblehead. Mr. Lorenzo Talman toldme he raised fou
. Gregory & Son's retail catalogue of warranted vegetable, flower and grain seeds . m iiii. THE CORY CORN. This new sweet corn, which I introduced in 1885,has proveditself to be earlier and larger kernelled than the Marblehead, beingthe earliest of all the numerous varieties now known. Mr. Charles N. Dyer saidthat he had raised theEarly Marblehead side byside with the Cory, andfound that the Cory was afew days earlier ; it made alarger and more present-able ear for marketing, thehusk covering the tip of theear better than was the casewith the Marblehead. Mr. Lorenzo Talman toldme he raised four rows of,Marblehead Early side byside with the Cory, andfound the latter the earlierby three or four days; but, said he, these fourdays made the differencewith me between thirty-fiveor forty and twenty centsper dozen. Mr. Anthony said: Ifind it a decided improve-ment on the Marblehead inearliness, size of kernels,and general presentable-ness of the ear. Any of my customers, byplanting the Cory corn, can have a complete monopoly of the marketfor early corn, with all the pecuniary advant
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