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The last five are varieties that had not been grown before at the 

 Gardens, and nnder the unfavorable eireumstanees it is not fair to 

 either praise or condemn them. All but one received a single star 

 for product at -harvest time ; none of the ears were picked green and 

 tested as to table quality. The}- were generally promising, and it is 

 with regret that they could not have been compared with the old 

 standard varieties in every particular. 



A row of each ran across the strip and consisted of eight hills, the 

 series being broken in each case by a hill of "Black Pop," ''Adams" 

 and "Golden Bantam," respectively. The plan was to breed upon 

 the white sweet sorts the three last-named distinct varieties, thus 

 getting a cross of each of them, each mixed grain to be marked by 

 dark flint, light flint and ^-ellow sweet, respectively. 



The season was unusually dry during the period of growth of the 

 early varieties and the crop from these was unusually small, several 

 of which being practically a failure. Of the three "breeders," so 

 called, both the "Black Pop*' and the "Golden Bantam" were for the 

 same reason a small crop, and the "Adams," while better, gave but a 

 poor yield. Crosses were, however, obtained with all the varieties 

 that gave any sizeable ears. The white sweet sorts that did the best 

 under the very trying circumstances are marked with a star in the 

 list under test. Four of special merit are double-starred. 



In the breeder row of "Black Pop" containing fifty-nine hills were 

 two stalks larger and later than the others that produced an ear each 

 quite different from the regular type. Instead of a slender ear with 

 the grains uniformly black was one over seven inches long and nearly 

 two thick, with sixteen rows of vari-colored grains, about one quarter 

 of which were white and the remaining three-fourths nearly evenly 

 divided between yellow and a mixture of dark and dark yellow. It 

 may be that the grain producing this plant w^as a mixture of white 

 and black, the black obscuring the white blood, or else it would have 

 been observed in the shelling of the seed from the black ear at time 

 of planting. If it were a mixture of black and yellow it might have 

 passed unnoticed, but then it is not easy to account for the quarter of 

 white grains. If it were a white grain (flint, of course) the large 

 amount of black grains is easily accounted for, but not so the equal 

 number of yellow grains, because the "Golden Bantam" was twenty- 

 one feet away and it did not impress itself to a like extent upon any 

 other ears that distance awav. But most difficult, under this last 



