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it down flat when it was in the silk." "It was pillaged by children 

 and not an ear was left." "Our Voorhees corn was destroyed by 

 ■cattle so that we shall not have even a few grains to plant." 



The following notes are more to the point : "Planted upon 

 good ground it grows large and fine, two ears upon nearly all and 

 three upon some stalks. Quality excellent '" "Stocky and thrifty: 

 excellent ; the best and sweetest corn we ever ate, superior to 

 'County Gentleman,' ^^•hich I had considered the best." "The 

 flavor was excellent, very sweet and tender, never ate better " 

 "Seven or eight feet tall. Invariably at least two ears and some- 

 times three; excellent." "I think you have a good variety." "A 

 good many of the stalks had two ears and some more and of very 

 good quality." "I find it of very good quality and a very thrifty 

 grower." "Large, somewhat less than "Stowell's Evergreen' and 

 excellent." "Of fine growth; not a plant that (id not have two 

 ears, some three and two with four; the quality excellent." "All 

 right ; eight feet high, two or more ears to stalk and quality excel- 

 lent." "Mostly two ears to stalk and the corn was very tender 

 and excellent." "Vigorous stalks, more than half had two ears; 

 the quality was excellent and was fit for the table for a compara- 

 tively long time." "Smaller than 'Country Gentleman' ; ears 

 mainly two to a stalk, two had three ears ; quality excellent." "The 

 plant are medium but perfect in shape with the corn superior — 

 very fine flavor." "Medium to large; mostly two ears ; excellent." 

 "The new corn is splendid." "Most had two ears to the stalk, 

 some few three." "We consider it a very good corn, but not equal 

 to the 'Country Gentleman'." "WHiat corn I used I was greatly 

 pleased with." "Uniform in size of stalk; two ears upon all but 

 two stalks; excellent; from first to last being without difference 

 except in being only a tinge of color on the earliest ears picked." 

 "Medium size, uniformly two ears of good quality." "The plants 

 w'ere seven to eight feet high with two to three ears to the stalk." 

 "We planted several varieties of sweet corn ; the Voorhees was the 

 best of all ; it was excellent." "Generally two ears, quality excel- 

 lent." "About evenly divided between one and two ears and al- 

 most entirely twelve rowed; quality excellent." "It grew splen- 

 didly and very quickly we ate one mess and thought it delicious, 

 but the chickens got the rest except two ears paved for seed." 

 "Planted June 20th and first picking September 22nd, it was very 

 good." "Large; 47 stalks, 58 sound ears; good." "Fine growth, 

 46 stalks gave 21 with two ears; the quality the best we know of. 

 We have 'Country Gentleman,' 'Stowell's Evergreen,' and other 

 highly recommended sorts' but 'Voorhev!S Red' exceeds them all 



