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arc ufurly ..f the -/Vdaius" tvpc in size, shape and character of 

 lar^, s(|iuire-tipiK><], dented gi-ain, as seen at 5. In number of 

 lows there wa^ very little deviation from twelve, so it would seem 

 in thi^ respect that the "Adams" has greater prepotency than the 

 "Mex'ican," which is strictly an eight-rowed sort. Nearly all the 

 ears were s.did Hint, hut in a few 10 per cent, or so of the grains 

 were wrinkled. The reason for this lack of uniformity among the 

 ears is not evident. 



" I'oiy-Black Mexican" (x/99). — An exceedingly variable block 

 of corn was obtained by planting the flint gTains obtained from a 

 row of "Black Mexican" that was grown among a long list of the 

 various pop varieties. In the lower left-hand corner of the plate 

 is sluAvn live sample ears. The one at 1 is a very neatly-shaped 

 ppeciraen, the grains of which show many shades of dark, light 

 pinks being common. The indications are that the male parent 

 was a "white i)earl," which gave a fourteen-row'ed ear, partaking 

 strongly of the "pearl" type. One-quarter of the grains are wrin- 

 kled, and Avhen separated may give some desirable qualities in a 

 sweet corn. At 2 is shown an ear that has three-fourths of the 

 grains dark and one-quarter yelldw. The yellow color is not en- 

 tirely obliterated by the black, and therefore in this type of crossed 

 ear it may be possible to separate out the pure blacks as well as the 

 jaire yellows, leaving the 50 per cent, of the hybrids. In the 

 picture the prevailing yellow color causes the ear (2) to be darker 

 than it naturally api)ears. The third (3) ear is one of several that 

 were harvested — all of them short, Avith many roAvs of square- 

 tipped grains witli a prevailing lemon yellow^ color. This appears 

 to 1)0 a result of the crossing of a lemon yellow sort (120) from 

 India, whicii was a very distinct type in the list of sorts grown last 

 year. In the engraving the light yellow shows nearly white, so that 

 the ear looks less colored tjum it really is. The wrinkled grains 

 are also dearly seeii. 



The ear at 4, there appearing black, is a dark wane red through- 

 out excepting tiie quarter of grains that are evidently pure black. 

 In this instance the red is an ear character instead of belonging to 

 tii«' individual grain, and the red color is apparently only visibly 

 (.verc<.nie when the grains are of pure black "blood." Here, as 

 elsewhere, ()n(v,|uarter of the kernels are of the wrinkled sort, and 

 < n.-.fourtli of ilu-se— that is, one in sixteen of the total— are black. 



