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plant? Yet this is the popular belief. On the contrary our pre- 
sentation shows no such conclusions. ; 
The Canada Yellow is reported as 5 to 6 feet tall from Ottawa 
and Manitoba. Mitchell’s Extra Early flint, at Ottawa, grows to 
a height of 51% to 6% feet. Canada flint, from the Province of | 
Quebec, at New York station, 1884, grew 6% feet tall; and the 
Canada Twelve-rowed, from P. Q., grew 6% feet tall. These few 
observations, put in evidence, suggest also like interesting reflec- 
‘tions. 
I have as yet insufficient experience or study to venture upon 
a statement as to the influence of climate upon maize except in its 
most general relations; of one thing I am assured, and that is the 
permanence of variety types under varied conditions, in every case 
Thave met where there was reasonable prevention of interpollena- 
tion with other varieties. Thus_the Dwarf Golden pop, whose, 
ovules are fertilized jeties co i isa 
permanent feature to some gardens. In Northern Maine, where 
the crop is only grown on hill-sides to escape the early frost of 
the lowlands, standing thus remote, the variety seems to have 
remained true from the earliest periods. At our local agricultural 
fairs the same variety is often exhibited year after year, and no 
apparent change within the memory of observers. A search in 
Northern Maine or New Hampshire brings to our knowledge a 
few fields of corn which is presumably the Blue corn of the 
aborigines. The corn found with the Arizona mummy at the 
National Museum seems identical with the varieties grown by the 
present Indians of that region. So far as I know, in any climate 
Suited to corn culture, any variety that matures between the period 
of local planting and local frost will grow and keep its characters 
_ intact. Perhaps a greater knowledge might cause me to change 
_ this statement. ; 
The idea that we must go north for our seed is thus seen to be. 
untenable, except so far that we only find corn in the north that _ 
__ will mature within certain periods. Far more plausible is the idea — 
_ that we must seek an earlier corn by finding an earlier variety, 
whether north or south. Thus the Cinquanto from Greece ripened 
at Ottawa, while the King Philip which originated from New 
“Hampshire is reported as med Me hee the Dutton, a New 
Eng a8 oniv in early milk. ae 
