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was grown upon the home grounds. The upper row of Plate I.* 

 is occupied with ears from this crop, the four upon the right being 

 photographed as taken from the field when the husks were dry, 

 but the grains still plump; those upon the left were gathered earl- 

 ier and had become cured. 



The plants were large with but very few suckers, the ears borne 

 high, occasionally two upon a stalk and of very acceptable fonn, 

 but perhaps too large for table: use in some hotels. The fourteen 

 tO' eighteen rows of deep gi'ains were usually straight, and the color 

 was so fine a white that the name "Silver Sweet" is fully merited. 



Aside from the points of excellence named above, it possesses 

 the one that was primarily sought for, namely, vigor of plant, 

 for which during such a season as the last it means all the differf net' 

 between a crop and a failure. Sweet corn as a, rule throughout the 

 State Avas nearly destroyed by the long dry weather of the mid- 

 gi'owing season. 



The following are the reports of the few practical growers who 

 had this cross for trial. 



REPORTS FROM TESTERS OF IOWA SILVER-MINE STOWELE 

 EVERGREEN." 



(1) "Planted April 23d^ — first picking AugTist 10th. Ears 

 medium and uniform in size^ — a good boiling and roasting corn." 

 (2) "The: corn was fine — large ears and the flavor was excellent; 

 grains large and sweet." (3) "High stalks, some over eight feet — 

 large ears, sixteen rows of medium sized kernels. Fairly sweet. 

 Average one and one-half ears to stalk." (4) "Average height, 

 seven feet, fairly vigorous considering dry season. Three-fourths 

 planted had two ears six to eight inches long — mostly like Ever- 

 green, but a good many irregular. Quality very good." (5) 

 "Plants were very vigorous and pcroductive — from seven tO' eight 

 feet high, despite a most severe drought, when they were com- 

 pletely destroyed by cattle a few days before the ears would have 

 been sampled on the table. If this corn is of good table quality 

 it is an acquisition." (6) "Partly a failure; too dry until late, 



*Plates I.-XXV. in this report were made from photographs by Mr. F. H. 

 Dodge, to whom many thanks are due for his courtesies and painstaiting skill. 



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