EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT. 469 



ducers of ears of large diameter and many rows of \<n\^ j^rains. 

 The "Metropolitan" had particularly line cars and an average 

 specimen is shown in plate II. 



Of the somewhat shorter list of die "late" varieties only 

 "Country Gentleman" ( \()) and "vStowell's iCvergreen" fX^j are 

 here mentioned, but the initial letter in the table under "date of 

 maturity" will indicate that seven other .sorts are classed here. 



Popularity of Varieties. 



'i'hc meaning o^ the term popularity as here used is determined 

 from Jiulletin Xo. 22* of the liureau of IMant Industry. Jn its 

 preparation the author has listed with each variety of vegetable 

 the names of all the .seedsmen (266) issuing catalogues in the 

 United States and Canada. From this bulletin it is determined, 

 as shown in the abcne tabulation, that some varieties are sold by 

 a larger number of dealers than others; thus the "Don" (22) is 

 listed in only one catalogue while the "I\gyptian" (23) is offered 

 for sale by ninety-five seedsmen. It is seen that the following 

 seventeen head the list namely: 



.I'ame. - Total. Name. Total, 



Stowell's Evergreen 199 Hickox 69 



Country Gentleman 185 Kenrlel's P3y. fjiant 08 



Minnesota FJarly 142 .Mammoth Late GC 



Black Mexican 138 A'dams 05 



Crosby Early 1 29 Mammoth Early C2 



Perry's Hybrid 120 Shaker's Early 58 



Adams' Extra Early 95 First of All 53 



Egyptian 95 PoUcr'a Excelsior .'0 



Cory White Cob 74 



This list does nr)t agree very closely with the previous one, 

 showing those w ilh the largest yields in our trials. 



Experiment With Conspiciously Colored Varieties. 



Upon a blrx:k of land kindly loaned for tlie purpose by the 

 Horticultural Department of the State Ivxi)eriment l^tation fur- 

 ther experiments were carried on with sweet corn. There were 

 five strips. l>etwecn small orchard trees, that were devoted to 

 sweet corn, each having four rows of seventy-five hills each. 

 One of the middle rows was planterl entirely with a single sort 

 called the "breeder," while along side of it were the other three 

 rows, each made up of a hill each of seventy-five varieties. The 



* Bulletin 21, U;S. J^epartment of Ai{riciiltiiri-. Buretti of-PtenflntluHtry. List of Ameri- 

 can Varletit-K of Vegetables for the Years ir/jl and r902by W. W. Tracy, Jr. 



