earliness, uniformity in size and appearance, and wide ad aptability. It is now the leading commercial variety in use. Highly recommended for plant sales. Sets an abundant con centration of firm, tightly folded, dark green sprouts at the same range, as well as at temperatures well above those re quired by other varieties. Plants need more room than open pollinated strains. Plants are tall with a very sturdy main stem, sets are firm, tightly folded and dark green. Excellent quality, best for freezing. CABBAGE Early Season Golden Acre #B4 (60 days) A very early variety with round, uniform, compact heads with good wrapper leaves. The heads usually weigh IV2 to 3 pounds and measure 5 V2 "-6" in diameter. This variety has a very short core, extremely tasty eating quality, and does not split as quickly as other extra early varieties. Highly recommended to commercial growers for the early market, very popular for plant sales and one of Agway’s more popular home garden varieties. Not yellows resistant. Mid-Season Roundup Fi Hybrid (yellows resistant) (80 days) A hybrid of distinctive appearance. An extremely well wrapped, bruise-resistant shipper and local market cabbage. Also good for mid-season kraut. Stands up well for mechan ical harvest. Leaves are blue-green, white interior color. Heads begin to firm up at 2Vi to 3 lbs. Cuts best at 3 to 4 lbs. for market, but will hold to 8 lbs. for kraut without splitting. The head shape is very slightly flattened. Among the more resistant varieties to bacterial leaf spot and hollow cores, Danish or Late Season Cabbage Eastern Bailhead (115 days) Agway’s most popular variety of late cabbage for stor age or fresh market. Heads are of medium size. The plants are short-stemmed and can be harvested two to three weeks before full maturity. The heads are solid from the time they weigh 2 lbs. and gradually increase to 5-8 lbs. Will stand for a long period without the heads bursting. Heads slightly flattened. Plants compact, with closely wrapped, slightly ruffled leaves. The color is excellent—dark blue-green and well retained in storage. Unlike most Danish types, the leaves are tough and leathery and will withstand harvest operations without bruising and splitting. Short cored and very tight interior structure, excellent quality. Days to ma turity given are for storage harvest. For fresh market deduct 17 days to harvest. CARROTS Nantes Long (70 days) Agway’s most popular home garden variety. Without question the sweetest tasting carrot. Roots are 6" to 7" long, 1" to V/z” in diameter and cylindrical with a uniform rounded base. Flesh is of a fine crisp texture with an attrac tive deep orange color and small core. Used for roadside stand trade or as a local market basket carrot with the tops removed. Graded seed available. CAULIFLOWER Improved Holland Erfurt (Snow Drift) (80 days) Well adapted for use under a wide range of conditions. Agway’s most popular, most satisfactory main crop variety for fall harvest. Plants are large and erect with ample fo liage for head coverage. Heads are large, smooth, very deep, very solid, and pure white. Unexcelled for quality. Because of its size and vigor, this variety gives good response under a wide range of conditions. Heads are ready to harvest usually over a period of two to three weeks. SWEET CORN Hybrids With Yellow And White Kernels Butter & Sygar (78 days) The standard of perfection in sweet corn. Proclaimed by the sweet corn connoisseur as the ultimate in sweet com flavor, texture and all around quality. This Agway-devel oped and improved bi-colored hybrid with its 12-14 rows of mixed white and yellow kernels on a 7-8 inch ear is now the first choice of the consumer public. For best results a high fertility program with plants 10-12 inches apart in the row will result in a good sized ear. Make successive plantings of Butter and Sugar 7 to 10 days apart to maintain production over an extended period. Butter and Sugar has excellent holding ability, maintaining quality and texture on the plant up to 5 days after ideal harvest time. No fresh market op eration or home garden is complete without Butter and Sugar. Hybrids With Yellow Kernels Early Fortune (67 days) A white silked high quality early hybrid. The number one “first-early” variety for flavor, tenderness and appear ance. Excellent seedling vigor gives this hybrid the ability to get up and go in the early spring. Ear is IVz to 8 inches long with 14-16 rows of small delicious kernels all the way to the tip of the ear. Dark green husk and flag leaves give this hybrid a lot of eye appeal in the display case. Early Fortune is a must for the fresh market grower and the home gardener. lochief (88 days) A popular main crop hybrid for fresh market and home garden. Large, slightly tapered ears with 16 rows of small deep yellow kernels and excellent flavor make this a favorite. Very good seedling vigor, good drought tolerance, and ex cellent bacterial wilt resistance also make it an easy hybrid to grow. lochief is very hard to pick, generally requiring cutting rather than snapping.
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