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| Keywords: Everything for the garden (15768379584).jpg From PETER 1EMDE1S0M <br> COo KEW YOIRH <br> 29 <br> The BEST EARLY and LATE SWEET CORNS <br> k Ji j B <br> a /l <br> A - ¢'-« <br> i JK <br> jh <br> Ekt <br> RL linopgSMM <br> 7 feai/e raised your Metropolitan Sweet Com <br> for five years; lam sure there is none better <br> G ROULEAU Auburn Me <br> I ant very much pleased with your Metropolitan <br> Sugar Corn It was very fine; I never ale better <br> J E A GIBBS Raphine Va <br> Metropolitan and Country Gentleman <br> To get the first crop of really good Corn one must grow Metropolitan <br> To be sure of the best quality at the last Country Gentleman is indispensable <br> Henderson's COUNTRY GENTLEMAN <br> ” SWEET CORN <br> Plump Pearly-White Milky Kernels Retaining its DELI- <br> CATE TENDERNESS even when a little old VERY <br> PRODUCTIVE the ear is nearly all Corn <br> When we first placed this Corn before the <br> public in 1891 it created a great furore among <br> Corn lovers ” and who is there in America who <br> does not enjoy green Corn on the cob <br> These first impressions have been fully justified <br> by later experiences and the Country Gentle- <br> man Corn has become justly famous all over the <br> United States and in some foreign countries as <br> well It is at once the delight of -the epicure <br> and a luxury within the reach of everybody <br> As will be noticed in the cut the kernels are <br> perfectly round at the end but of extraordinary <br> depth the cob being extremely small; nothing <br> in fact but a core <br> It is of nectar-like sweetness luscious tender <br> and milky and remains in the milk longer <br> than other Sweet Corn The ears measure <br> eight to nine inches in length and the plant is <br> very prolific often producing three ears to a stalk <br> It is a slow-maturing variety and arrives at full <br> perfection just in time to succeed the earlier <br> varieties See cut Price 10c pkt 25c pt <br> 40c qt 1 25 for 4 qts 2 00 pk <br> THE MOST DELICIOUS SWEET CORN GROWN <br> Mr Thomas M Whyte buyer of the stores for the <br> Hotel Knickerbocker one of New York's palatial hotels <br> says I have found no green Corn so satisfactory as the <br> Country Gentleman It is sweet and juicy free from <br> worms or blemish It will not be in market before early <br> August and then New York will begin feasting on the <br> most delicious of Sweet Corn the Country Gentleman <br> N Y Evening Mail July 24 1913 <br> HENDERSON'S <br> METROPOLITAN <br> Sweet Corn <br> FOR VEKY EARLY <br> The Best the Largest the Sweetest <br> and the BIGGEST YIELDER <br> OF ALL EARLY SWEET CORNS <br> There has never been any one variety of Corn <br> beside Metropolitan that combined the essential <br> features of earliness productiveness and good <br> flavor in a satisfactory degree In these impor- <br> tant characteristics Metropolitan certainly out- <br> classes any other variety It is very little <br> later than Cory which has been the most popu- <br> lar early sort <br> The plant is distinct being very strong in <br> stalk growing 5 feet in height The leaves <br> are numerous narrow and very dark green in <br> color The ears are from 8 to 9 inches long and <br> all set low They are 10 to 12 rowed well filled <br> to the tip with large deep grains which are very <br> tender It is not merely sweet but possesses <br> that exquisite richness so well known in the <br> larger and later sorts See cut Price 10c <br> pkt 25c pt 40c qt 1 25 for 4 qts 2 00 pk <br> PURCHASER PAYS TRANSPORTATION ON CORN BEANS AND PEAS IN PINTS OR OVER If wanted by Parcel Post see zone rates on page I A pint weighs 1 lb 43874821 149634 78295 Page 29 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874821 c1915 10 5962/bhl title 78295 Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection ; Peter Henderson Co Biodiversity Heritage Library Everything for the garden 1915 Garden Stories Books Bulbs Plants Catalogs Equipment and supplies Flowers Gardening Lawn mowers Seeds U S Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library bhl page 43874821 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874821 bhlGardenStories BHLinbloom bulbs plants u s department of agriculture national agricultural library bhlgardenstories bhlinbloom Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-01-28 Check categories 2015 August 25 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/15768379584 2015-08-25 03 00 23 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Everything for the garden 1915 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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