Identifier: everythingforgar19pete_17 (find matches)
Title: Everything for the garden : 1920
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs Books Catalogs Lawn mowers Catalogs Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs Flowers 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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main in the milk, the thickhusk giving splendid protection. The plant grows about 5 feet high, bearing noless than two ears to a stalk, very uniform in shape and size. It is ready to usein from nine to ten weeks from planting, and can be confidently recommended asa perfect Sweet Corn for the home table. (See engraving.) Price, 10c. pkt.,35c. pt., 60c. qt, $2.25 for 4 qts. I used your vegetable and flower seeds last year and I must say they were all excellent. I neverhad such good results as I had with your corn and cucumber seeds. Hiawatha yielded enormously. H. ALLERTON, Derby Line, Yt.Your sweet corn Hiawatha was very delicious. ROBERT SIMPSON, Vineland, N. J. PLANT FOR LATESWEET CORN Late Mammoth Remarkable for its immense ears, which are filled to the tip with pure white,sugary grains, very tender and sweet. If this Corn is wanted for the table latein the season, seed should be planted in this latitude not later than July 1st. Price, 10c. pkt., 35c. pt., 60c. qt., $2.25 for 4 qts.
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PLANT FOR LATE SWEET CORN Stowells Evergreen Long recognized everywhere as a standardvariety, both for home use and market, and is ageneral favorite. The ears are of a large size,grains deep, exceptionally tender and sugary,and have the advantage of remaining longer inthe green state than any other. Price, 10c. pkt.,40c. pt., 70c. qt., $5.60 for 4 qts. Wish you could see our com grown from your StowellsEvergreen Corn seed. It is the finest on the market.BOYS INDUSTRIAL IIOMI.. Williamsport, Pa. HENDERSONS Continuity COLLECTION OF FIVE VARIETIES OF SWEET CORN Offered on Pages 30 31 and 32, Named Relow These collections are made up of 5 varieties tosupply the home table continuously throughoutthe season with tender, milky and deliciousSweet Corn. They arc listed so as to indicatetheir respective seasons of maturing. The selec-tion is made primarily for quality and may beperfectly relied on not only in this respect, butalso as regards its continuity. Seeds of the ENTIRE COLLECTION SHOULD

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