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red stripes characteristic of the mother plant. One ear liad all the 

 grains of a dark red, but showing by darker color the proportion of 

 mixture with "Mexican" blood of the other ears. 



The "Striped Evergreen" has the peculiarity of "throwing red oars/' 

 and this tendency was still active even in the above cross. The block 

 was not prolific, but it remains to be seen what this cross can do under 

 favorable conditions for growth. 



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The Mexican-Garwood" (94 ) block was planted with dark grains 



from ears of a kind of corn, secured from j\lr. Gardner, of this State, 



who has practiced selection with it for a number of years, until it is a 



fine, uniform strain, approaching the "Evergreen" group of sweet 



corns. The plants were satisfactory in size and showed much vigor 



under the very trying conditions for growth. A set of six ears is shown 



in the lower left-hand corner of Plate II. They were larger in 



diameter than any other of the four crosses under consideration, and 



average twelve rows, instead of eight, as in the "Mexican" parent. 



The white grains are practically one-quarter of the whole number. 



The last of the set to be mentioned, because its list or record num- 



99 

 )3er is higher than any of the others, is the "Mexican-Malakhov" ( 96" )• 



The stalks were slender and medium size, due to the smallness of the 

 mother in the cross, and, like it, there was the desirable earliness. 

 The ears, shown in a set of six at the lower right-hand corner, are 

 fairly long and slender, and, of course, eight-rowed, as is the case with 

 both parents. There is promise of getting in this cross a fairly prolific 

 and early sweet corn of superior quality. 



By planting the white grains from each one of these crosses, and 

 with a few years of selection, it seems probable that four sorts of white 

 sweet corn may be secured, some of which may prove of merit. In 

 the same manner, by choosing the dark grains of each cross and 

 eliminating the white grains, as they appear in decreasing numbers 

 from year to year and selecting for desirable form of ear, another set 

 of dark sweet corns may be secured, differing widely in some instances 

 from the original "Black Mexican." Thus from the "Malakhov" 

 cross great gain in earliness might be expected, while with the "Gar- 

 wood" a finer, thicker, longer-grained ear might be secured, with 

 nearly the same lateness as the male parent. 



