. Burpee's farm annual. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; W. Atlee Burpee Company; Nursery stock; Flowers; Vegetables; Seeds. WATERLOO EXTRA EARLY DENT CORN. We first introduced this valuable New Early Dent Corn iu 1893. The illustration exactly represents an ear engraved from a photograph. It was discovered in Nebraska, where it was brought by an emigrant fifteen years ago. In the virgin prairie soil he has grown it all these years, constantly selecting and im- proving it, until it was acknowledged he had the very best Cor
. Burpee's farm annual. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; W. Atlee Burpee Company; Nursery stock; Flowers; Vegetables; Seeds. WATERLOO EXTRA EARLY DENT CORN. We first introduced this valuable New Early Dent Corn iu 1893. The illustration exactly represents an ear engraved from a photograph. It was discovered in Nebraska, where it was brought by an emigrant fifteen years ago. In the virgin prairie soil he has grown it all these years, constantly selecting and im- proving it, until it was acknowledged he had the very best Corn in all the country round. Until recently, he would not let any of his neigh- bors have seed ; but such a grand Corn was too good for any one man to keep for his own exclusive use. It attains seven to nine feet higb, of heavy and healthy growth ; sets its ears three to three and a half feet from the ground, averaging two ears to a stalk ; ears well set on the stalk, and ten to eleven inches long; cob red, onlv about one inch thick : fourteen rowed, V 11 well set with large grains ; color deep golden-yellow. The whole crop is very uniform, both as to growth of stalk, number of ears on stalk, and size of ears. Will rank among the very best hundred-day Corns. The original grower says of it: "First, it is a ninety-day Corn, and when Pride of the North is ready to husk I am always ready to go at my crop. Second, it yields more shelled com to the bushel (seventy pounds of ears) than any other variety, ex- cepting Pride of the North, but it should not be compared with that sort, because it will outyield it by thirty bushels per acre. I never sell any Waterloo Corn on "the ear, because elevators take seveuty pounds of ears for fifty-six pounds of corn, and my corn will shell sixty pounds every ; PRICES OF THE WAT E R LOO CORN, carefully saved for seed : Per pkt. 10 cts.; per lb 30 cts.; 3 lbs. for 75 cts., postpaid, by mail. By ex- press or freight! Per peck 60 cts
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