. Annual circular and retail catalogue of warranted vegetable and flower seeds. Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds United States Catalogs; Fruit Seeds United States Catalogs. Longfellow's Field Corn. This fine field corn I have thought worthy to have its portrait taken. It is the result of careful selection in a family of Massachusetts farmers for forty-five years. The ears are re- markably long, some of them fifteen inches, and oftentimes two or more good specimens grow on one stock. The cob is quite small. It is the largest kerneled variety of yellow fi


. Annual circular and retail catalogue of warranted vegetable and flower seeds. Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds United States Catalogs; Fruit Seeds United States Catalogs. Longfellow's Field Corn. This fine field corn I have thought worthy to have its portrait taken. It is the result of careful selection in a family of Massachusetts farmers for forty-five years. The ears are re- markably long, some of them fifteen inches, and oftentimes two or more good specimens grow on one stock. The cob is quite small. It is the largest kerneled variety of yellow field corn that I have ever found it safe to plant in the latitude of Massachusetts. Several of my customers have expressed them- selves as highly pleased with their crops of the Longfellow Corn. The seed I offer this season is selected from a crop of 220 bushels of ears to the acre. Per package, 10 cts.; per quart, by mail, 55 by express, 35 cts.; per peck, $ ; per bush- el, Log-of-Wood This new melon is a variety of the yellow-Meshed musk melon. It grows to the enormous length of from two to three feet, the form and general ap- pearance of most of the specimens heing very well shown in the above engraving, which was taken from a photograph. Early and prolific, in qual- ity nothing extraordinary, but equal to the common Muskmelon. Per package 15 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original James J. H. Gregory (Firm); J. J. H. Gregory & Son; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Marblehead, Mass. : James J. H. Gregory


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