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Dorr's Iowa Seed Manual. 7

Collards.

Georgia-Sow seed in May; transplant and treat as Cabbage. Per packet, 5c; oz. 15c.

Corn Salad or Fetticus.

A delicious Winter salad. Sow early in September in drills quarter of an inch deep and six inches apart. Just before cold weather cover with straw or leaves. Per packet, 5c; oz. 10c; 1/4 lb. 25c.

Corn-Garden Varieties.
Twenty cents per quart must be added to pay postage when Corn is ordered by mail.

Per Packet, Ten Cents, Postpaid.

Our Sweet Corn is very fine. It is grown and cured with great care, and is true to name. It is one of our principal crops.
Early Minnesota-Early, excellent, ears large very uniform. Qt. 25c ; pk. $1.50 ; bush. $5.00.
Crosby's Early Sweet-Little later than above; sweet and fine. Qt. 25c; pk. $1.50.
Moore's Early Concord-Large, well-filled ears, highly prized. Qt. 25c; pk. $1.50; bush. $5.00.
Early Des Moines-A superb variety, which has been grown and improved by the gardeners in this vicinity for many years. Among the earliest; good sized ears; delicious flavor; very prolific-second to none for first early. Qt. 30c; pk. $2.00; bush. $6.00.
Egyptian-This magnificent new variety is deserving of the highest praise, which it receives from all who have tested it--in fact another year 's experience with
it has thoroughly convinced us that it is the best late sweet corn in the market. It grows to a good height; is very prolific; quality the very highest, unsurpassed for sweetness. Qt. 25c; pk. $1.50; bush. $5.00.
Extra Early Tom Thumb-This is a very early eightrowed variety, producing ears of fair size, kernel large, white and sweet. Stalks grow three or four feet high, with two or three ears on the stalk. It is very sweet and tender, resembling the Crosby or Evergreen in flavor. This superiority in sweetness over other extra earlies, and its extreme earliness make it the most valuable sort in cultivation for Market Gardeners. The stock we offer has been selected and grown with great care. Qt. 30c; pk. $2.00; bush. $6.00.
New England Sugar-A popular variety; fine quality. Qt. 25c; pk. $1.50; bush. $5.00.
Early Eight Rowed Sweet-An excellent variety. Qt. 25c; pk. $I.50; bush. $5.00.
Stowell's Improved Evergreen-Very large, sixteen rowed, deep kerneled and sugary, remaining a long time in a fit condition for boiling; one of the best for
general purposes. Qt. 25c; pk. $1.50; bush. $5.00.
Pop Corn-Very fine rice. Qt. 30c; pk. $2.00.
Mammoth-The largest of all varieties; late; fine quality; large yielder. Qt. 25c; pk. $I.50; bush. $5.00.
Early Adams-Very early and productive, white dent sort, much used for roasting ears. Qt. 15c; pk. $1.00; bush. $3.50.
Asylum-Medium early, large ears; fine flavor; very desirable. Qt. 20c; pk. $1.25; bush. $4.00.
Extra Early Naragansett-Matures fit for table in sixty days; very sweet; highly recommended. Qt. 20c; pk. $1.25; bush. $4.00.
Amber Cream-This delicious new variety is the result of a series of experiments, by cross-fertilization between Moore's Concord and Briggs' Early Sweet Corn. Stalks are strong and vigorous, growing from seven to eight feet high, ears are set tolerably high, having from twelve to sixteen rows on the ear; color, when fit for table, white and handsome and of very superior quality; ears large, average from ten to fourteen inches. When dry, it is of a rich amber color, varying from dark to light shade and very much shriveled. From a plot of ground containing one hundred and forty-four hills, planted two by three feet, there was harvested in a single season one thousand one hundred and twenty (1,120) ears, from which there could be selected only thirty ears less than nine inches in length. Those who have tried it unite in its praise. One in Indiana writes, "Amber Cream Sweet Corn cannot be beaten as a second crop. My customers said it was the best sweet corn I brought to market. It has taken the first premium at the Agricultural Fair where there was twenty different kinds of corn." Another from Nebraska, "The Amber Cream fully equals any sweet corn I have tried, as an early bearer, having a delicious flavor." One in New York State says, "I think it will be some time before a sweet corn will be sent out that will rival the Cream." Another from
Georgia, "The Amber Cream is the only satisfactory sugar corn I have ever grown here. I had large, well filled ears in spite of rive weeks drought." Do not fail to give it a trial. Qt. 50c; pk. $3.00.
Potter's Excelsior-A variety of corn in great favor with the well-known Squantum Club, of Silver Spring, R. I., and used almost exclusively by them in their famous clambakes. It is about as early as the Moore's Concord, the ears being the same size. Its quality is of the best. Very sweet and wonderfully productive, producing four to five ears on a stalk. Also known as "Squantum Corn." Qt. 30c; pk. $2.25.
Extra Early Six Weeks-Produced good roasting ears for us last season in less than six weeks from planting. Ears small but well filled. Not sweet. Qt. 30c; pk. $2.00.
Black Mexican Sugar-The Black Sugar Corn is especially rich in saccharine or sugar qualities, and is highly prized by those who have tried it. The grain, though black when dry, is simply of a smoky hue when in edible condition, and does not present any offensive features, as might be supposed with those not acquainted with it. Qt. 30c; pk. $2.00.
Hickox-Very tine quality, especially useful for canning. Ear twelve rowed, straight and handsome; deep kernels. Qt. 25c; pk. $1.50.
Marblehead Early Sweet Corn-This variety was first sent out by Mr. Gregory, who speaks of it as follows: "I send out the Marblehead Early Corn as the earliest of all the varieties of sweet corn cultivated. When tested with such standards as Early Minnesota and Narragansett, it proved to be full a week earlier than any of them. A similar test with Tom Thumb, Dolly Dutton, and other early varieties, gave the same result. In all its characteristics except earliness it bears a close resemblance to the Naragansett. The stalk is dwarf in its habit of growth, and sets its ears very low down. It is of fair market size and very sweet. For three years I have made a special business of testing the Marblehead Early Sweet Corn side by side with all the earliest varieties, including those said to be earliest of all, and the result has been that without a single exception it has proved be the earliest of all." It is certainly one of the most valuable market sorts we have grown. Qt. 30c; pk. $2.00; bush. $6.00.
California-This is a delicious new corn, very valuable for third early, as it comes in after the medium early sorts and ahead of the late varieties. Its principal value consists in its productiveness, as the stalks average more than two ears, there being more with three ears than one; its extra sweet quality being very finely flavored and its large sized ears, which are sixteen to twenty rowed, and as large as the Evergreen. It is now offered for the first time. Qt. 50c; pk. $3.00; bush. $10.00.
Sweet Corn for Fodder or Ensilage-This is as good as any corn so far as the growing qualities are concerned, but we do not take the pains to keep it strictly pure, like the table sorts; on this account it can be offered cheaper, but it does very well for the purpose we sell it. Qt. 15c; pk. 75c; bush. $2.50.

Cress, or Peppergrass.

Extra Curled-A well known salad. Sow thickly and at intervals during the season; cover seed slightly; per packet 5c; oz. 10c; 1/4 lb. 25c.

Cucumbers.

Cucumbers succeed best in a rich, loamy soil. For first early sow in hot beds, upon pieces of sod or in small flower pots six weeks before they can be set out
in open ground. A cheap substitute for flower pots when cucumbers are raised on a large scale, is to plant the seed in ordinary strawberry boxes, then set the
boxes in the open ground instead of transplanting. By this method there is no danger of disturbing the young plants, and the boxes serve as protection against
cut worms, until they rot away, which we have found an important item. When danger of frost is over transplant in hills four feet apart each way. For general crop, plant in open ground in May, about twelve