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D Season medium early. 



Banana (6). 



DD Season medium or late. 



Country Gentleman (19). 

 Ne Plus Ultra (62). 

 Zigzag (91). 

 CC Kernels large. 



Zigzag (90). 

 Zigzag Evergreen (92). 

 AA Kernels colored, wrinkled. 

 B Color dark amber. 

 Aristocrat (4). 

 First of All. (32). 

 BB Color red. 



Voorhees. 

 BBB Color black. 



Black Mexican (99). 

 BBBB Color yellow. 



Golden Bantam (34, 35). 

 Golden Dawn (36). 

 BBBBB Color white striped with crimson. 

 Striped Evergreen (27). 

 AAA Kernels flinty. 



B Kernels white. 



C Rows usually eight. 



Buck Mountain (8). 

 Landreth's Early Market (53). 

 Landreth's Earliest Table (87). 

 CC Rows generally more than eight. 

 Adams (2). 



Adams' Extra Early (3). 

 BB Kernels yellow. 

 Bryant (7). 



Field Notes Upon Sweet Corn. 



The following notes are kindly furnished by Mr. J. K. Shaw, 

 who had the immediate charge of the field experiments with corn : 



The foregoing preliminary classification of sweet corns is 

 based on the somewhat careful study of the dry ears of the 

 varieties grown in the Experimental Gardens during the past 

 season. In some cases a lack of material has made it uncertain 

 just where to place a variety under consideration. A natural 

 classification, however desirable, is not attempted at the present 

 time. 



The sweet corns, as a whole, are easily separated into three 

 grand divisions, namely: (i) Those with the kernels of the com- 

 mon amber white color; (2) those of various other colors, and 

 (3) those flint corns which on account of their earlincss and pro- 

 ductiveness are much grown for market purposes. The first and 

 largest division is separated into two groups, depending upon 

 the arrangement of the grains, whether in rows or zigzag. The 

 corns of the first group sometimes show more or less of the 



