Burpee's Earliest Catawba Corn
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; ½ pt., 20c; pt., 30c; by mail, postpaid. qt., 35c; 4 qt., $1.10; peck, $2.00
Originally listed in: Burpee's Annual for 1916
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; ½ pt., 20c; pt., 30c; by mail, postpaid. qt., 35c; 4 qt., $1.10; peck, $2.00
Originally listed in: Burpee's Annual for 1916