field corn

Improved varieties of field corn will ripen during favorable seasons.

The true pumpkin is hardly to be considered as a garden crop, and, as a rule, should be planted among the field corn.

Sweet corn is of American origin, having been developed from field corn, or maize.

Soil well adapted to common field corn will produce good sweet corn, thriving best on well fertilized land.

Sweet-corn seed often decays if put into the ground as early as field-corn.