. Annual illustrated catalogue of seeds. Nurseries (Horticulture), Minnesota, Catalogs; Vegetables, Seeds, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs. 18 A Tilton's Descriptive Seed Catalogue. COR N .—Continued. FIELD SORTS. PKT. OT. BU. Rideout, or Mercer. - This is decidedly the largest eared and hand- somest flint corn grown. Very prolific, having yielded one hun- dred and sixty-four bushels of good sound ears and seven bushels of nubbins to one acre, and weighs sixty-four pounds to the shelled bushel. Ears average from nine to eleven inches in length, twelve to fourteen rowed, well filled out to the tips
. Annual illustrated catalogue of seeds. Nurseries (Horticulture), Minnesota, Catalogs; Vegetables, Seeds, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs. 18 A Tilton's Descriptive Seed Catalogue. COR N .—Continued. FIELD SORTS. PKT. OT. BU. Rideout, or Mercer. - This is decidedly the largest eared and hand- somest flint corn grown. Very prolific, having yielded one hun- dred and sixty-four bushels of good sound ears and seven bushels of nubbins to one acre, and weighs sixty-four pounds to the shelled bushel. Ears average from nine to eleven inches in length, twelve to fourteen rowed, well filled out to the tips, and of a rich golden vellow color. Matures in seventy-five days from time of planting. Many stalks have two and sometimes three good ears each. Very few suckers 05 .15 $ Minnesota White.—This is an eight to ten-rowed white flint com. with short well-shaped ears and small cob. The stalks bear from three to five ears : the ears are small in size, kernels are hard and com- pactly placed on the cob. Like other flint varieties, it matures early. .05 .15 Longfellow.—This is an eight-rowed yellow flint variety, the result of careful selection. The ears are from ten to fifteen inches long, one and one-half to one and three-fourth inches in diameter; are well filled out to extreme end of cob. The cob is small, kernels large and broad 05 .15 Minnesota King.—The earliest yellow half dent; for ability to endure extremes of heat and cold, flood and drought it has no equal, and will make a crop where no other corn will mature. The distinguish- ing characteristic of this variety- is its sureness as a cropper. In appearance it is remarkably distinct, with fair sized ear. eight rowed, small cob. large broad kernel, rich golden color. An abun- dant vielder, and in ever\' way a desirable early variety 05 .15 Pride of the North.—Cob small, kernels deep and compactly set on the cob; has yielded one hundred bushels shelled corn per acre, ripening when nearly every othe
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