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Title: Annual descriptive catalogue : seed &c.
Identifier: CAT31285498 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Joseph Breck & Sons; New England Agricultural Warehouse; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Joseph Breck & Sons
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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3° JOSEPH BRECK & SONS (Corporation) Corn.—Sweet* German, Mais.—French, Mais,—Spanish, Maiz. y other variety popular the A rich, warm soil is best especially for the earlier vari ties, which ordinarily should not be planted before the middle of May. Successive plantings may be made until July. Plant in hills three or four feet apart each way, according to the height of the quart will plant about 200 hills. Selected Ears, above Sorts, Five Cents each. pkt. Black Mexican, Said to be the sweetest corn in cultivation, medium early Breck's Premier, Large, medium early, unequalled in quality . Breck's Zig=Zag. A main-crop sort, keeps longer in fit condition for table than Country Gentleman. A larger and later Ne Plus Ultra type Crosby, Josiah Crosby's strain Early Crosby, Early and of excellent quality. An old favorite Early Evergreen, Like Stowell's, but a week or ten days earlier Early Maine. A fine extra early, pure white sort Early Mammoth. Very large, medium late .... Early Minnesota. Nearly as early as Cory, dwar Early Red Cory. A very early sort, with good-si/^d ears and large kernels Early White Cory. Differs from the precedinf olor of cob . Egyptian. A very large, late variety, exceeding' sweet and superior . Hickox Improved. Large, handsome ears, whit3, superior flavor, late Late Mammoth Sugar. Extra large ears, quality very fine, productive Mammoth White Cory. As early as the other Cory, but with ears double Moore's Concord. Medium early, large ears of unsurpassed quality . Perry's Hybrid. A large, early, favorite market sort .... Potter's Excelsior. Perhaps the best and sweetest main-crop variety Quincy Market. Larger ears and earlier than the common Crosby Stowell's Evergreen, The standard late variety .... Corn*—Fieldm None of our special offers apply to field, fodder or pop corn Angel of Midnight, The earliest and best yellow flint variety . Breck's Boston Market, Specially adapted for the purpose of ensilaging. Blunt's Prolific, An early eight-rowed leafy dent variety .... Early Sanford. A white flint variety, equally valuable for ensilage or grindin Early Yellow Canada. Well-known early, eight-rowed flint variety Evergreen Sweet Fodder. For cutting green and feeding to stock . Golden Beauty. A tall-growing leafy dent variety for ensilage Learning. A yellow dent variety, very valuable for ensilage Longfellow. Eight-rowed yellow flint, long ears, with small cob Mastadon. One of the best yellow dents for ensilage . Pre=Historic. The strongest growing sort we know Pride of the North. Grown for ensilage or fodder . Red Cob Ensilage. An excellent fodder and ensilage sort White Southern. Valuable for ensilage and fodder . Pop Corn, White Rice, and Eight-Rowed White. On the cob 10 cents per lb. See Special Offers on third page of cover.
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