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Forty Days’ Early White. 34 ears, all flint. Yellow, white — 
and pink striped kernels. ae: 
Eight-rowed Brown. 30 ears, all flint. Purple-brown, copper- — 
red, yellow, red-splashed, slate and black kernels. 
Eight-rowed red-glazed. 31 ears, all flint. Yellow, copper — 
red, white, slate, red and splashed kernels. eek 
Waushakum. Pure seed. 16 ears, all flint. Yellow kernels. : 
Waushakum. Station grown seed. 21 ears, all flint. Yellow, — 
slate and red-splashed kernels. 2 
Improved King Philip. “31 ears, all flint. Yellow, red-blazed, 
copper-yellow, black, slate, blotched and speckled kernels. = 
New England Twelve-rowed. 1 ear, all flint. Yellow and 
white kernels. ee 
White flint. 28 ears, all flint. White, yellow, black and pink 
splashed kernels. —o 
Red Nose White. 35. ears, all flint. White, yellow, pink, 
purple and blotched kernels. : 
Early Dutton. 29 ears, all flint. Slate, white, yellow and: 
red splashed kernels. ee ae 
Eight-rowed Purple. 23 ears, all flint. Purple, yellow, ws: 
per yellow and red-striped kernels. oe 
Rural Thoroughbred. 15 ears, all flint. White, yellow and 
blue kernels. ae 
Our Squaw flint is an eight-rowed corn. There seems to ies 
corelation between this and climate. In New England the eee 
predominance of eight-rowed varieties is signiflcant, yet there | 
an eight-rowed and a twelve-rowed Canada; but I have no reco 
of the comparative frequency of the two varieties. The samp® 
of soft corn sent me from the Red River region of Manitoba bide 
eight-rowed, so also the dent varieties from Dakota. In my set 
scription of 44 varieties of flint corn in 1884, 28 eight-row ed ° 
varieties are suited for New England growing, and 8 twelve-rows oe 
_ two varieties, twelve-rowed, being foreign and hence wee 
_cribed to American location. Those varieties which moe 
distinctly Southern or Western comprise one twelve-rowed 
five over twelve-rowed. Yet, since writing the above, cis 
ceived a small twelve-rowed variety of a slate or bluish 
pop, which is said to ripen in eighty days in Massachu 
