Identifier: dreersgardencale1884henr (find matches)
Title: Dreer's garden calendar : 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Henry A. Dreer (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs Nursery stock Catalogs Gardening Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Henry A. Dreer
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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nEvergreen or Mammoth Sugar, producing a large ear, very sweet and delicious; ex-cellent either for canning or family use 10 10 20 4 50 Large Sweet, or Mammoth Sugar. The largest late sort, very productive, of fine flavor- to 10 20 4 50 Evergreen Sweet. The latest and one of the sweetest, ears large, de^p grained, of excel-lent quality, remaining longer green than any other variety 10 10 20 450 Egyptian Sweet. A new large variety, somewhat resembling the Evergreen, flavor pecu-liarly rich and sweet, and of superior quality 10 10 20 4 30 Little Gem Sweet. A small new late variety, resembling the Evergreen, very sweet and luscious, especially adapted for family use. (See Illustration in Supplement.) 10 10 30 600 The best canning varieties are Evergreen, Egyptian and Roslyn Hybrid. Ears of Sweet Corn when ordered to be sent by mail, remit 5 cts. for tbe small, and 10 cts. fcr tbe large ears, and shelled 25cts. per quart, Ib addition to price, to prepay postage. DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR. 17
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1. Extra C.-rled Garden Cress. 2. True Water Cress. 3. Evergreen Sweet Corn. 4. Large Seeded Corn Salad5 English Prize, or Frame Cucumber. 1.. Tailb\s H\-brid Cucuviber 2 6. Early Russian Cucumber. 7. Crosbys Extra Early Sweet C< rn. 8. Improved Early White-Spined Cucumbk« 9. Celeri.\c, or Turnip-Rooted Celery.:o. Small Gherkin, or Burr Cucumber. 18 DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR. CORN (Indian)—Continued.The following are Field Varieties : Comptons Early Yellow. The earliest variety, ripening in seventy-six days, produc- Doz. Hund. ing about loo bushels per acie, ears long, grain medium, bright yellow and flinty; ears. ears. Qt. Bu.best adapted for W£7M«^a/« r?^(?«i-and norih of Pennsylvania $o 50 300 20 2 50 Early Yellow Canada, or Flint. The early ninety day corn, used principally for re-planting where the other varieties fail to come up, and then maturing at the same timewith the common field varieties ; also good for northern latitudes 50 300 20 2 50 Early Large White Flint. The

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