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fine crop of ears; I find the variety a productive one on our .-Miil. 

 ears well filled Avitli good-sized kernels, very sweet and prolific, a 

 very profitable one for the market gardens to grow." '"Flars of 

 this eoiTi eame up well. Some of the straight-row'ed had very 

 large kernels and were very tender." "Would say I found it an 

 excellent early corn, several days earlier than other kinds and 

 very sweet and tender, an excellent good grower and also a good 

 l)earer." "Strong and vigorous, two or three ears on each stalk, 

 ears about eight inches long, flavor good." ''Wriuld consider it a 

 very good variety." 



OTHER ''BLACK MEXICAN" CROSSES UPON HOME 

 GROUNDS. 



The following is a list of the crosses of the "Black Mexican" 

 upon other varieties of sweet corn that w'ere gTown in the Garden 

 during the past year, namely: ''Banana" (6), "Gold Coin Ever- 

 green" (26), "Striped Evergreen" (27), "Metropolitan" (56), 

 ''Pen-y's Hybrid" (66), "Potter's Excelsior" (69), "Quincy 

 Market" (74), "Trimnph" (88), "Garwood" (94) and "Malak- 

 liov" (95). This was the second generation, and, in all instances, 

 gi'ains appearing to be pure white were selected for planting the 

 hills (usually thirty to forty-five) devoted to each cross. 



"Me-xican-Banana" (99/6). — This block, planted upon May 

 14th, made an evenly tall and slender set of stalks with large 

 tassels, with pink anthers followed by silks that varied somewhat 

 in their pink color. The small ears, borne high upon the stalk, 

 were of high quality. Of the sixty-two ears harvested upon Sep- 

 tember 5th, some contained a majority of dark grains, suggesting 

 that the mother kernels for these, although white to the eye when 

 the seed corn was selected, probably contained dark "blood." The 

 fact that all the other fifty-five ears contained a small percentage 

 of dark grains is probably due to the pollen from the seven plants 

 that bore the dark ears above mentioned. Thirty-three ears were 

 straight-rowed, nine wath the grains zigzag, and twenty showed a 

 combination of the two types of grain arrangement. There is a 

 suggestion here of the straight-rowed being dominant over the 

 zigzag type. 



"Mexican-Gold Coin Evergreen' (99/26). — This block was 

 purposely not planted until June 26th, that it might escape mixing 



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