Adams Early
The standard southern variety, having stalks growing from seven to eight feet in height, with a large ear eight to ten inches in length set well up on the stalk.
Black Mexican
A medium early variety, growing about six feet in height; ears eight inches long, well filled with eight rows of large, rather flat, grains which are a deep bluish purple, of deliciously sweet flavor. Price same as Early Mammoth.
Burpee's Dreadnaught Adams Early
This is a selection from the tall Adams Early, and is slightly earlier in season and produces a larger and finer ear filled to the extreme tip of the cob. It produces the largest and finest ear of the hardy white table corns. Prices same as for Extra Early Adams.
Burpee's Earliest Catawba
Resembles our famous Golden Bantam in dwarf growth and extreme earliness, but differs in coloring and flavor. Grown singly in long rows the plants sucker freely and then frequently bear as many as four and five good ears from a single seed. It produces uniformly handsome ears from six to seven inches long, rather slender, and just the right size to eat from the cob, which is well filled to the tip with eight rows of broad grains. When ready for use the grains are pearly white, slightly flushed with rose-pink, but in the dry seed the color is the exact counterpart of a fine Catawba grape – a dark rich purple shaded with rose. The small cob is white. Some growers pronounce it even more tender and more deliciously sweet than the popular favorite Golden Bantam. Pkt., 10c; ˝ pt., 20c; pt., 30c; by mail, postpaid. qt., 35c; 4 qt., $1.10; peck, $2.00
Burpee's Early “Cosmopolitan”
This grand early variety produces fine large ears only a few days later than Cory or Early Fordhook. In size of ear and fine quality it equals the best second-earlies, such as Crosby's. The stalks grow five to six feet high. The ears are of most handsome appearance, seven to nine inches long, with ten or more rows of large grains. The cob is pure white and the ear is well filled, the grains at the top making a round point to the ear. The dry seed is firm, of large size, and germinates unusually well from early plantings. The only thing is...we consider Howling Mob a better variety of similar type. Pkt., 10c; pt., 25c; postpaid. qt., 30c; 4 qt., $1.00; peck, $1.75
Burpee's White Evergreen
It has ears fully as large as those of the regular Stowell's and is about five days earlier, while the grains remain tender for a longer period. Its most valuable feature, however, is the extreme paper whiteness of the grains, which makes not only a more attractive ear when served on the table, but is most important for the canner. It retains its whiteness when put up in cans as distinct from the yellowish tinge of the still popular original Stowell's Evergreen. Makes strong vigorous stalks seven feet in height. The ears have white tassels and light-colored silk. The ears contain sixteen or more rows of deep grains, which are protected by a thick heavy husk. Two and even three fine ears are frequently produced on each stalk. Pkt., 10c; pt., 20c; postpaid. qt., 25c; 4 qt., 85c; peck, $1.50
Canada Yellow Flint
The Flint corns are the hardiest and earliest in maturity and can be grown satisfactorily much farther north than the Dent corns. Our strain is of an improved type, producing long well-filled ears with eight rows of quite large grains. It is much more productive than the ordinary strains of Flint corn, while retaining, to the fullest extent, the early ripening and hardy qualities. Pkt 10 cts.; lb 25 cts.; 3 lbs for 65 cts.
Chester County Mammoth
The stalks are of strong growth, abundantly supplied with leaves, producing one to two ears to the stalk. The ears are of extra large size, containing from fourteen to thirty-two rows of medium size deep-yellow grains, which are rich and nutritious, making excellent meal when ground. It is one of the best yellow varieties for good land in this latitude and the South, but cannot be relied upon to mature sufficiently early for farther north the Pennsylvania. Pkt 10 cts.; lb 25 cts.; 3 lbs for 65 cts.
Cory
This popular extra early variety succeeds well where the summer is short, cool, and moist. Ears six inches in length, with eight rows of quite broad grains. The cob is red. Pkt., 10c; pt., 20c; postpaid. qt., 25c; 4 qt., 75c; peck, $1.25.
Country Gentleman
This late or main-crop variety is the result of a cross of the Ne Plus Ultra with Stowell's Evergreen, producing a larger ear than the former, but retaining its productiveness, similar fine quality, and irregular “shoe-peg” arrangement of the crowded, slender, deep grains. The ears, being so much larger than those of the original type, are more desirable in most localities as a market variety. Pkt., 10c; pt., 25c; postpaid. qt., 30c; 4 qt., $1.00; peck, $1.75
Crosby's Egyptian
Twelve-rowed. This is the favorite second-early variety; ears about seven inches long with ten to twelve rows of fine grains of excellent quality. Largely used for canning. Pkt., 10c; pt.20c; postpaid. qt.,2 5c; 4 qt., 75c; peck, $1.25
Early Droughtproof
The ears are large and the kernels quite deep, bright yellow in color, while the cob is extremely small. It is of strong growth and under favorable conditions has produced over one hundred bushels per acre. It matures in from ninety to one hundred days from time of planting. Pkt 10 cts.; lb 25 cts.; 3 lbs for 65 cts.
Early Fordhook
This is one of the largest-eared extra earlies, the ears averaging six to seven inches in length. It is two to three days earlier than the Cory, of better flavor, and has both grains and cob of pure white coloring. The ears are eight-rowed, with quite small cob and deep grains. While of much the same habit of growth it is greatly superior to the Cory in sweetness of flavor. Pkt., 10c; pt., 25c; postpaid. qt., 30c; 4 qt., $1.00; peck, $1.75.
Early Mammoth
A late ripening second-early variety. The ears are of large size, tapering well toward the point; kernels large and very sweet. Pkt., 10c; pt., 20c; postpaid. qt., 25c; 4 qt., 85c; peck, $1.50
Early Minnesota
A standard early variety of strong growth. Ears larger than Cory, and matures before the Crosby. Eight rows of quite large sweet grains. Pkt., 10c; pt., 15c; postpaid. qt., 20c; 4 qt., 70c; peck, $1.25.
Extra Early Adams
This is of dwarf growth, six to seven feet in height, with two thick medium-sized ears, and is a week to ten days earlier than the Adams Early and Dreadnaught. Pkt., 10c; pt., 15c; postpaid. qt., 20c; 4 qt., 60c; peck, $1.00
Golden Bantam
first named and introduced (exclusively by us) fourteen years ago, has now become the most popular of all extra-earlies. It is pronounced the richest in flavor of all. It is the hardiest sweet corn for the cool Northern States. It is the best variety also to plant in the summer for late fall use. It has made a most remarkable record. As showing the immense popularity to “This Little Yellow Corn,” our customers may be interested to know how it sells in comparison with the leading early white varieties. The past season (1915) we sold fifty-seven thousand four hundred and five packets and packages (of one quart or less) more of Golden Bantam than the total combined sales of Early Fordhook, Cory, White-Cob Cory and Early Minnesota, the four well-known “standard” white first-earlies. This is a most remarkable record and shows that thousands of private planters are now using Golden Bantam exclusively for first-early Sweet corn. Is not only extra early but also extra hardy. Although the grain in the young tender state is sweet and rich beyond comparison, the dry seed quite solid, permitting of the earliest planting. Plantings can be made a week or ten days earlier than with the shriveled seed of white-seeded varieties. Even if planted at the same time, Burpee's Golden Bantam is as early as the Cory and vastly finer in flavor. It's so named because the grain when ready for use is a a rich creamy, deepening to orange-yellow as it ripens. This distinct color is so unusual that many persons seeing it for the first time ask: “Is that really a sweet corn?” a single trial of its splendid quality soon convinces them that Golden Bantam is actually the finest flavored of all sweet corns. It is dwarf in growth, the stalks averaging four feet in height. The ears are from five to seven inches in length; but what it lacks in size is fully made up in its productiveness and quality. The small stalks can be grown closely together in the row and in good soil will produce two and three fine ears to a stalk. While recommended especially for the Northern States, it is desirable also for warmer locations, both as a first-early and for late plantings. It is valuable because the ears, protected by a good firm husk, are not liable to smut. Golden Bantam of our selected strain, Northern-grown seed: Pkt., (2 oz) 15c; ˝ pt., 20c; pt., 30c; postpaid. qt., 35c; 2 qts., 60c; 4 qts., $1.10; peck, $2.00
Hickory King
This has the largest grains with the smallest cob of any white corn. So large are the grains and so small the cob that on an ear broken in half a single grain will almost completely cover the cob section. Of strong growth, the stalks take a firm hold in the ground and stand upright. It yields splendid crops on light soil, and is undoubtedly the most productive white field corn for the South. We do not, however, consider it a safe crop to be grown north of Pennsylvania. Pkt 10 cts.; lb 25 cts.; 3 lbs for 65 cts.
Howling-Mob
Originated with C.D. Keller, of Toledo, Ohio, and its peculiar but apt name refers to the vociferous demand for the ears when Mr. Keller takes them to market. In developing this corn the originator aimed to secure a large ear early in the season and at the same time possessing the sweet flavor of the later varieties. The stalks are of strong vigorous growth, four and one-half to five feet in height, have abundant foliage and generally produce two fine ears to a stalk. The ears measure seven to nine inches in length with twelve or fourteen rows of good sized, pearly-white grains. The ears are covered with a heavy husk which extends well out from the tip and affords good protection from the green worms which are so often destructive of early Sweet corn. Burpee's Early “Howling-Mob” is ready for use only three to five days later than the extra early Cory when both are planted at the same time, but the ears are so much larger in size, while the grains are so much whiter and sweeter that it should really be compared with the second-early Crosby's Twelve-Rowed and other varieties of a later season. The seed we offer has all been grown by the originator, and the originator's stock can be obtained only from us. Pkt., 10c; ˝ pt., 20c; pt., 30c; by mail, postpaid. qt., 35c; 4 qt., $1.10; peck, $2.00
Improved Leaming
The ears are long with small red cob well filled with grins of medium size, of a rich golden color. It ripens in from one hundred to one hundred and ten days, and generally makes a good crop, even in dry seasons, by reason of its strong vigorous growth. Pkt 10 cts.; lb 25 cts.; 3 lbs for 65 cts.
Kaffir
The stout stalks grow stiffly erect, from six to ten feet in height, according to location and richness of the soil. The stalks and blades cure into good fodder and are also desirable to furnish green forage during the summer months. The seed is borne in a loose branching head ten to twelve inches in length at the top of the stalk. On good land Kaffir Corn will yield fifty bushels per acre. The seeds are esteemed for feeding to both stock and poultry. Pkt 10 cts.; lb 25 cts.;
Kendel's Early Giant
A second-early variety, several days earlier than Crosby. Ears average seven inches in length, thick through, with ten or more rows of large grains of rich sugary flavor. Pkt., 10c; pt., 20c; postpaid. qt., 25c; 4 qt., 75c; peck, $1.25.
King of the Earlies
This is a very early maturing variety of yellow Dent corn. The stalks are slender, growing about six feet in height, producing one or two ears to a stalk. The ears are of medium size, with small dark-red cob well filled with quite slender but deep grains, shelling well; with us this variety produces fully ripened ears in ninety days. Pkt 10 cts.; lb 25 cts.; 3 lbs for 65 cts.
Mammoth Late
A large-eared variety maturing after Stowell's. The mammoth ears are thick through, with many rows of large broad grains of excellent quality. Prices same as Early Mammoth.
Mastodon Dent
This is a large-eared Main Crop Dent corn. It grows strong, rank, quick, and makes the finest appearing shelled corn of then all, being purely Dent, of two shades of white and yellow. Pkt 10 cts.; lb 25 cts.; 3 lbs for 65 cts.
Pride of Indiana
This is a pure white corn of large size, season medium. Ears are from nine to eleven inches long, seven and a half to eight and a half inches in circumference, containing sixteen to twenty-four rows of kernels. The kernels are long and wedge-shaped. Pkt 10 cts.; lb 25 cts.; 3lbs for 65 cts.
Pride of the North
This variety is excellent for short cool seasons or where a late planting is made farther south. The ears are from eight to ten inches in length, and have from fourteen to sixteen rows of slender deep-yellow grains. Pkt 10 cts.; lb 25 cts.; 3 lbs for 65 cts.
Reid's Yellow Dent
This is the standard variety in many sections of the middle West. Ears average nine to ten inches long, tapering slightly toward tip, are about six inches in circumference, contain sixteen to twenty rows and are remarkably uniform. Kernels light yellow, deeply dented, and well placed on a cob of medium size. Usually matures in one hundred and ten to one hundred and fifteen days. At Fordhook we have been very well pleased with our crops of this variety, having found it sure to mature when planted early in May and a very heavy yielder with but small percentage of nubbins. Pkt 10 cts.; lb 25 cts.; 3 lbs for 65 cts.
Seymour's Sweet-Orange
A most desirable second-early or mid-season variety, growing vigorously from six to seven feet in height, and producing an average of two good ears to a stalk. The ears are ready for use five days to a week later than those of the Golden Bantam and are from six to seven inches in length, with twelve to fourteen rows of deep, rather slender grains of a light canary-yellow. It is fully equal in surpassingly delicious flavor to our famous Golden Bantam. Of strong growth, the larger ears are well filled and the grains are exceptionally sweet and full of milk. The grains remain soft and tender for a longer period than those of any other second-early sweet corn. Reports from cool Northern localities praise the hardiness of growth and early season of maturity, while those from the South speak of the protection afforded from worms and smut by the strong heavy husk. Pkt., (2 oz) 15c; ˝ pt., 20c; pt., 30c; by mail, postpaid. qt.,
Stowell's Evergreen
This has long been the leading main-crop variety for home use, market, and canning. Our stock is carefully selected and can be depended upon to produce fine large ears of superior quality. The grains, of good size, are long and slender, entirely free from glaze or flintness. Pkt., 10c; pt., 15c; postpaid. qt., 20c; 4 qt., 70c; peck, $1.25.
White Cap Dent
The stalks are stout growing six to seven feet in height, with abundance foliage. Ears of handsome appearance, eight to ten inches in length, well-filled, having sixteen to eighteen rows of deep grains. The cob is small, grains being very deep and quite wide. The outer end of the grain is white, deeply dented, while the inner portion is a clear amber-yellow. Pkt 10 cts.; lb 25 cts.; 3 lbs for 65 cts.
White-Cob Cory
This is equally as early as the Red-Cob Cory, but is rather less hardy. The grains retain their pearly whiteness when cooked. Pkt., 10c; pt., 20c; postpaid. qt., 25c; 4 qts., 75c; peck, $1.25.