Title: Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm and garden, 1902
Identifier: CAT31285983 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: T. W. Wood & Sons; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Richmond, Va. : T. W. Wood & 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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SEED CORN-White Field Varieties, Our Virginia grown seed corn gives the very best and most satisfactory results all through the South, succeeding and giving much better and more satisfactory yields than corn grown in the North and West. We are constantly receiving large numbers of voluntarv testimonials irom our customers, testifying to 'the fine results from planting our seed corns, and our sales have in- creased to a very large extent all throughout the South. We do not believe that in the history of the seed trade there was ever offered a better selection of the varieties of corn adapted to the South than we offer in the following list. All of them have been thoroughly tested, and can be recommended and planted with confidence. MOSBY'S PROLIFIC CORN. An improved prolific corn, which has given splendid results wherever grown. It is a pure white corn; very small white cob and deep, full grain; neither very hard nor verv soft. Pro duces an average of two or three good sized ears to the stalk. In tests made in our trial grounds last season, we were particularly pleased with this variety. We believe it will prove to be one of the most valuable and prolific varieties in cul- tivation. Pkt. ioc.; qt. 20c.; peck, 60c.; bush. $* ^ MEXICAN JUNE CORN. ^ A Southern variety that succeeds well plantea as an early crop, but is more strongly recom- mended for later plantings in May or June. It is of quick maturity, and seems particularly adapted to stand hot, dry weather. The stalks grow eight to fifteen feet high, and it has two or three ears to the stalk. Makes a large yield and a large growth of fodder, and would make an ^-excellent ensilage corn. Pkt. ioc.; qt. 20c; . / peck, 60c.; bushel, $2.00. K HOLT'S STRAWBERRY CORN. This corn produces a very large ear, and often two ears to the stalk, the ears running from ten to twelve inches in length and from fourteen to sixteen rows to the ear. The grain is very large and1 deep, with comparatively small red cob. It makes a large growth of fodder, and good sized stalk. It is rather late in maturing, pre- serving its fodder in good shape after earlier corn is dried up, and withstands drought better than any other corn with which we have had ex- perience, this characteristic being particularly noticeable by those who have grown it. It is a white corn, but some ears of strawberry or striped grain appears in it, hence its name. Even the striped or red grains, however, make white meal, as the stripe is only on the skin of the grain. We unhesitatingly recommend this corn to our customers as one of the most satis- factory and largest yielding field corns in culti- vation. It is one oE the best corns for feeding to stock, as the kernel contains much more nutri- tious matter, and in this respect it is much su- perior to corns of a flinty nature. Pkt. ioc, postpaid; quart, 20c; peck, 60c; bushel, $1.75; /two-buskel lots and over, $1.65 per bushel COCKE'S PROLIFIC CORN. This is a valuable variety of white corn, first produced by the late General Cocke on his plan- tation on the James river. Since that time it has been very greatly improved by careful se- lection and cultivation. On land of good fer- tility, and especially on river low grounds, it may be relied upon to produce from two to four ears to the sfalk, and we have seen growing as high as eleven good ears to the stalk. This pro- lificacy makes it a heavy yielding corn. One farmer in Fluvanna county, Va., produced 160 bushels of corn of this variety on one acre of land, and 1,575 bushels on 15 acres, or an average over the 15 acres of 105 bushels per acre. Had the season been a more propitious one, he be- lieves the yield would hav« been still greater. The ears are of good average size, the grain being of a white, flinty nature, making an excel- lent meal or hominy corn. Pkt. ioc, postpaid; quart, 15c; peck, 50c; bushel, $1.60. Two-bushel lots and over, $1.50 per bushel. C 66 )
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