. Burpee's farm annual : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Pennsylvania Catalogs; Seeds Pennsylvania Catalogs. BURPEE'S SELECTED CHESTER COUNTY MAMMOTH SEED CORN. For eleven years past we have sold this corn for seed verj- extensivelj', and are able to affirm that the Chester County Mammoth Corn, when genuine seed is planted, on good land, will ontyield every other variety if Yellciu Field Corn, excepting only Burpee's Golden Beauty. It yields, under good cultivation, from lOO to 150 bushels shelled corn
. Burpee's farm annual : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Pennsylvania Catalogs; Seeds Pennsylvania Catalogs. BURPEE'S SELECTED CHESTER COUNTY MAMMOTH SEED CORN. For eleven years past we have sold this corn for seed verj- extensivelj', and are able to affirm that the Chester County Mammoth Corn, when genuine seed is planted, on good land, will ontyield every other variety if Yellciu Field Corn, excepting only Burpee's Golden Beauty. It yields, under good cultivation, from lOO to 150 bushels shelled corn per acre. The ears are ver>' large, containing 14 to 32 rows of medium-size yellow grains. It weighs 58 to 59 pounds per measured bushel; it is not a hard, flinty corn, but very sweet and nutritious. It furnishes a large amount of excellent fodder, growing 12 to 16 feet higli, and taking a firm, strong hold in the ground. It is, undoubtedly, one of the best yellow field varieties for rich land in this lati- tude or the South. It cannot be relied upon to mature in time for the far North. Prices of Burpee's Selected Chester County Mammoth Seed Corn :âPer large pkt. locts.; ft). 40Cts.; 3ft)s. $, by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, peck 60 cts. ; per bushel $ ; sack'of 2 bushels ; 10 bushels, or more, at ;^ per bushel, sacks included. ANGEL OF MIDNIGHT CORN. A new early yellow flint corn, from ISIassachusetts, and first introduced last year. The Rural New Yorker of Nov. 14th, 1885, reports as follows on this variety :â " It was planted May 13th and the kernels began to glaze August 5th, showing it to be an extremely early corn, and decidedly earlier than any other field corn we have ever grown. Longest ears, 14 inches, 8 rows, over 60 kernels in a row. Kernels large, broad, yellow flint. Plants six feet high only; very leafy at bottom, slender top; ears low, often two large ears to a stalk ; stalks small, shanks long, cob small. We are as confiden
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