8 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [OCT. 10, 



At the close of the paper Dr. Britton stated that a species of 

 Maize or Indian Corn had been discovered growing in the 

 wild state in Central America, and that the cultivated plant was 

 undeniably a production of the Americas, where it has 

 been under cultivation from remote antiquity and was found 

 a staple article of food by the early discoverers. 



Dr. Hubbard contributed the following notes: 



Indian Corn. 



Lawson, John. — A new voyage to Carolina, 1709, Lond. p. 75 

 ' 'The Indian Corn or Maize proves the most useful grain in the 

 world and had it not been for the fruitfulness of this species it 

 would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the 

 plantations in America. 



It is the most nourishing for a man to subsist on without 

 any other victuals . ' ' 



Dr. Dwight (Pres. Yale Col. 1795) Travels Vol. 2. p. 312 " The 

 Sweet or Shrivelled Corn so called because when ripe the kennels 

 are remarkablj' shrivelled (white, one variety grows) and the 

 'Long Island Sweet' (white 2 varieties — 8 rows Sweet — 12 rows 

 insipid) which is large and comparatively late, is when in the 

 Milk, the most delicious of all culinary Vegetables. 



The " Sweet " may be planted so early as to furnish seed for a 

 second crop which will come to perfection the same season in 

 New Haven. Travels Vol. 1. p. 49. At New Haven the Sweet 

 Corn may be had in full perfection for the table by successive 

 plantings from the middle of July to the middle of November. I 

 commonly plant at twelve different jjeriods in the season. 



Dr. Dwight at the same time cultivated Tomatoes for the table. 



Dec. 1. 1884, at a meeting of the Academy I asked Col. Ely 

 S. Parker about ' ' Sweet Corn. ' ' He rej)lied "When a boy I asked 

 my Father, a Seneca Indian, 'Where the Indians got Sweet 

 Corn? and he said with emphasis. " The Indians always had 

 Sweet Corn aud the Cree corn of the Rocky Mountains which 

 grows only 2y^ ft. high and very nice" 



He scouted the statment of Mr. John B. McMaster " That 

 Sweet Corn was unknown in 1784." 



