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mould out whole from the pot, it was planted in the 

 ftme without difturbing the roots. It foon grew 

 vigoroufly, but never had the healthy and robufl 

 appearance of the former. It had always a fickly 

 greenifli yellow look, which betrayed its malady j 

 ^notwithftanding its ftems grew to a good height, 

 and tillered furprifingly. I counted 24 ears from 

 this fingle grain, moft of them of a good length, 

 but lank and thin, very unlike the appearance of 

 thofe fmutty ears which are not affeded till the 

 blowing feafonj for thefe very often are the fineft 

 and plumped ears in the field, till that time. 



Of thefe 24 ears, 23 of them were entirely fmutty, 

 not a found corn could be found among them. 

 The other was quite a fmall underhng ear, which did 

 not appear till a full month after the other, but al- 

 ways bore a healthy countenvincc. This ear pro- 

 duced 14 corns only, and thofe fmall and thin, but 

 found and perfed. Thefe were planted again laft 

 Augufl, and are now as fine.and promifing as any 

 corn in the field. 



From this experiment it feems ro appear, that a 

 grain wliich is vitiated with the fmut, yet has enough 

 of the vegetative principle found to enable it to 

 grow, infallibly produces fmutty grain. -That one 



ear. 



