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18. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

Novelty of 1896. Great $1,000 Corn.
Iowa Silver Mine Corn.

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Best Corn Ever Introduced.
The acme of perfection. Unsurpassed and unsurpassable. Is our opinion valuable? Why should it have a weight with you? Please consider--we claim to have filled more orders for field corn in 1895 than any three other seed firms in America. The reason that our seed corn trade is increasing so rapidly is that we have never sent out a bushel of corn which would not, under ordinary conditions, prove satisfactory and please the purchaser. If we were sold out of our best stock, we frankly said so and returned the money. Our customers have confidence in us, and when we tell them that in our opinion the NEW IOWA SILVER MINE CORN is the best and most profitable variety in the world for any farmer to grow, they will all want to test it. Don't fail to plant a few acres of it this year. It will pay you.

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OTHER PRIZES
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CHALLENGE CHRYSANTHEMUM
Large variety; a perfect globe of the brightest gold, depth and width being equal; a very strong stem and good foilage. This is a magnificent new sort which cannot fail to please the most fastidious, and will delight all flower lovers, as it is the greatest advance in yellow greatest advance in yellow chrysathemums that there has been for years. Plants are fairly loaded with flowers. We have grown to good stock and offer them at the low price of 10c each.

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high and continues to flower the year round, often one hundred open blossoms at one time one a single plant in a small pot. Flowers of good size. Tube and sepals bright red, corolla deep purple. Every lover of Fuchsias should have this little gem. Each 15c.

SWAINSONIA.
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Why Plant White Corn?
Is the question you will ask at once. It yields more. The American Corn and Hog Journal gives a summary of the reports of 1,267 comparative tests of corn in the various State Experiment Stations with 489 varieties of corn, showing that the average yield of the 216 white varieties has been 2 1/2 bushels per acre in excess of the yield of the 273 yellow varieties, and of the 31 varieties giving the best yield 24 were white and 7 were yellow. In feeding qualities a chemical analysis shows no difference between the white and yellow. The coloring matter in yellow corn will not fatten hogs. There is no doubt that white corn is more hardy and a better drouth resister. Millers will pay a higher price for white corn than for yellow.
PRICE.--Postpaid--Pkt. 10c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, 7 lbs. $1.00. By Freight--1/2 pk. 65c, pk. $1.00, 1/2 bu. $1.75, bu. $3.00, 2 bu. $5.00.

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YELLOW QUEEN CHRYSANTHEMUM
The finest very early variety ever introduced, having been vut the past two seasons in find condition on the 10th of October. Very large, clear, bright yellow with extra stout stem and foliage; the plants averaging two and half feet high. It also develops its flowers to perfection in open air without protection. Awarded certification of merit at New York shows, 1892, the blooms at that time have been kept in the cellar for two weeks. Best as crown buds. Each 20c.

EIDERDOWN CHRYSANTHEMUM
Large, perfectly double, incurved, snow white, late Japanese variety, covered with gladular hairs as in Mrs. Hardy style of Kyoto, habit perfect, stems stiff and erect. Winning notoriety wherever shown. Each 20c.

PLANT ORDERS MUST AMOUNT TO AT LEAST FIFTY CENTS.