. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1883 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, with directions for their culture : also, a large assortment of plants, gladiolus, lilies, horticultural requisites, &c. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. iv THE RURAL PREMIUM CORN. Most readers of agricultural Journals are aware of the valuable experiment
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1883 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, with directions for their culture : also, a large assortment of plants, gladiolus, lilies, horticultural requisites, &c. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. iv THE RURAL PREMIUM CORN. Most readers of agricultural Journals are aware of the valuable experiments carried on at the Farm of The Mural New Yorker, with the diflierent farm crops. Corn has received special attention, and of the two varieties described helow the Flint has heen raised through forty-one successive years, while the Sent was found so much superior to other similar varieties that it was at once selected as the best in cultiva- tion. It is with pleasure that we announce that we have been fortunate enough to secure the entire original stock, which we now ofter lirst for sale. RURAL THOROUGHBRED FLINT CORN. A remarkably distinct and wonderful va- riety. It is a Flint Com, and has been raised, as stated, over forty years in the RuraVs family, isolated from all other vaiietles, the longest anu most perfect ears onlj^ beiug se- lected for seed from year to year. It pro- duces the longest ears of any known varietj'. Ears of fifteen inches in length are not un- common, and some have even reached the enonnous length of seventeen inches, speci- mens of which may be shown. It is eight- rowed, of a peculiar buff color, cob very small, and kernels large and very broad. The stalks are slender, eight to nine feet in height, and closely set with large, remark- ably hroad, leaves. Each seed produces up- ward of twelve strong suckers,—many of which mature perfect ears,—forming a regu- lar bush, so that they cannot be distinguished from the main stalk. Owing to this spread- ing
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