Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_3 (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; Fruit trees
Publisher: Floral Park, N. Y. : John Lewis Childs
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898. 93
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Every family garden ought to have a selection of Sweet Oorn, from the earliest to the latest varieties. Fine for i&rying, as well as for summer table use. ©hi Ids' Honey Dew—A superb novelty. For years seedsmen have been working to get a corn as early as the Cory, with large ear, white cob and superb quality of the later varieties. We at last have it. Childs' Honey Dew is not only the earliest, but has a good sized ear, white cob, and large, pearly kernels of the very finest quality, ten- der, sweet and nutritious. It also keeps a long time in good condition before hardening, and runs perfectly uniform, every ear exactly alike. In all-round good qualities it is the finest of all Sweet Corns. It grows to medium height and the ears are formed low, and two or three or each stalk. Mr. Willard, the extensive seed-corn f'ower of Weathersfield, Conn., who grew an acre of the oney Dew the past season, says: "It is the finest Early Corn." This is undoubtedly the most important veget- able novelty of last year, and we are now prepared to supply it in quantity for the use of market gardeners. It is the most profitable corn to plant, combining as it does good size and color, luscious quality, handsome appearance and long keeping, and earliest to mature. Pkt., 10c.; pint, 30c; quart, 50c. We will send a peck by express for $1.00, or a bushel for $3.50. *§»flfornla—A fit companion for our Honey Dew, and with these two varieties one can wish for nothing further in the line of Sweet Corn. This is a late variety of enor- mous size and great beauty of ear. Pkt. 10c: pt. 35c; qt.40c. Cory Extra Early—One of the most valuable early Corns grown. One to t wo weeks earlier than any other sort, except Childs' Honey Dew, while the ears are plump and of good size, and quality sweet, tender and delicious. Pkt., 10c; pint, 20c; quart, 35c Burbank's Early Maine—Claimed to be as early as the Cory. A fine table sort, with creamy-white kernels, very sweet and juicy. This strain has been developed by very careful selection, and will please all who try it. Pkt., 10c; pint. 30c; quart, 50c Shoe Peg, He Plus Ultra or Quaker Sweet—One of the very best eating varieties grown. An old sort, but none the less valuable on that account. Very deep kernels, of the sweetest and most appetizing flavor, and one of the best of all for drying and canning A prolific and thor- oughly reliable Corn. Pkt., 10c; zunt, 25c; quart, 40c Evergreen—A grand late sort that remains in bearing a long time. Sweet and good. An old standard favorite. Pkt,, 10c; pint, 20c; quart, 35c. Mammoth—Immense ears of superd quality, very iate. Can scarcely be omitted from a jirst-class garden* Pkt„ 10c; pint, 25c; quart, 40c. Pop Corn—We have about a dozer fine new sorts of Pop tCorn, of superior merit. We offer seed of same, mixed, at 10c. per pkt.; 30c. per pint.

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