. 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. QUEEN OF THE PRAIRIE CORN. Among tlie several new kinds of Corn introilnccil within the last few j-ea
. 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. QUEEN OF THE PRAIRIE CORN. Among tlie several new kinds of Corn introilnccil within the last few j-ears, none have Rained as general and deserved imiinlarity as the Queen of the Prairie. Being a Yellow Dent variety, its early maturity, combined with very largo yield, is something astonishing. No other Dent Corn has ever been grown suc- cessfully as far north as this; jilanted on the 4th of .Inly, it has fully matured its crop before frost, and it has even been planted as a second crop, after the Wheat harvest, and yielded a full and well-ripened crop. Wo cannot give a better description than to <iuoto what one of our coiTespondents says: "IjUanted about tive acreaot this Corn, near the middle of June. Tho ground was too low. wet, and miry to be acces- sible by horse and admit of plowing; so I dug, with a hoe, holes varying from three tf) five feet apart, droi)ped in each three grains of Corn, and covered tliem up. Nothing more was doue, no cultivation what- ever given, and tho yield was 750 bushels of Corn. I also planted six rows on upland alongside of our Field Corn, and under tho .same conditions and cultivation it yielded two bushels more. 1 do not hesitate to state that this Corn has no ecpial, and has these advantages, not ijossessed by any (jtlier: First. It will grow on poorer soil. Second. It makes no suckers. Third. It grows One-fourth Natural Size. quicker and matures sooner. Fourth. It shells two busliels of grain from tlireo bushels of ears, shelled,
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