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Title : Everything for the garden : 1906
Year : 1906 ( 1900s )
Authors : Peter Henderson & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects : Seed industry and trade Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher : New York : Peter Henderson & Co.
Contributing Library : U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor : U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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VEGETABLE SEED SPECIALTIES -T% MAIN CROP. THE TWO BEST SWEET CORNS ON EARTH. VERYEARLY. /HENDERSONS CountryGentleman Sweet Corn For Main Crop. The Most DeliciousSweet Corn Grown. Plump, Pearly-White, Milky Kernels, fairly melting in the mouth. Retaining its Delicate Tenderness even when a little old. Very Productive, Each stalk yielding 3 and often 4 ears; even 6 ears to a stalk occasionally, Cour HENDERSONS ountry Gentleman.
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HENDERSONS METROPOLITAN V <^SWEET CORN FOR VERY EARLY. The Best, The Largest, The Sweetest, / and the Biggest Yieldcr of all eArly SWEET CORNS CY1 S the finest of all Sweetjj\, Corns for the private(~) table. The arrange-ment of the kernels on thecob indicates high quality.The moment the teethsink into this luscious,milky, tender Corn, youwill become a complete convert to it, for it will delight the most fastidious epicure.It retains its delicate tenderness and flavor even when a littleold, as the ears are enclosed in a heavv husk, which tends tokeep the ear in the milk for severaldavs longer than othercorns. The ears average eight to nine inches in length, cobsmall and plump; pearly-white kernels of great depth fill theear from end to end. It produces three, manv times four,and occasionally five and six, ears to a stalk. But the greatmerit of the Country Gentleman Corn is its deliciousquality; it is, without doubt, the sweetest and most tender ofany Sweet Corn. (See cut.) Price, 1

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