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No. 131. "Rice." A. D. Co. (No. 3). This is a small sort, green throughout, 

 aud with the ears short. 



" 132. "Rice." A. D. Co. (No. 4). This is a medium-sized sort, with red 

 color throughout, and the ears with the grains somewhat as in 

 No. 129. 



" 133. "Rice." J. & S. This is nearly the same as the last, but did not 

 yield as well. The grains are less pointed. 



" 134. "Rice." Vau. This is the same as the last. 



" 135. "Rice." Y. & H. This is the same as the last two. 



" 136. "Snotcball." Buck. Seems to be the same as the last three. All 

 of these last were too shaded for good results. 



" 137. "Black." A. D. Co. This is a characteristic, small, early variety, 

 with slender, usually curved ears, bearing large, dark grains, vary- 

 ing from lead-colored to nearly black. 



" 138. "Striped." Buck. This is a strong-growing sort, maturing me- 

 dium late and bearing short, stout ears, with the large rice grains 

 more or less striped with amber. 



" 139. "Tattooed Yankee." Chi. This is a tall, slender-stalked sort that 

 falls badly. The ears are long, bearing large, much-pointed grains 

 that are mixed yellow and black. 



" 140. "Dwarf Purple." U. S. D. A. This is a quick-growing sort, mak- 

 ing a height of three or four feet and producing small, tapering 

 ears, with the pointed grains of an amethyst color and arranged 

 irregularly. 



" 141. "Dicarf Yellow." U. S. D. A. This is a most decided dwarf, the 

 plants not being over two feet high and tne ears as many inches 

 long. The -pointed grains are of a delicate straw yellow and of 

 the zigzag type in their arrangement. 



This list of thirty-six numbers, samples of which are shown in Plate 

 III., may be divided, first, into the standard and dwarf, and the former 

 into the rice and the pearl. Of the rice type there are the white, red, 

 bronze, striped and tattooed. The pearls group themselves into the 

 white, yellow and black, and the white pearls may be divided again by 

 the separation of the sort known as the eight-rowed, because of the 

 characteristic which its name bears. 



It is too early in the study of these plantings to determine the num- 

 ber of well-defined varieties. The "Red Rice" and the "Bronze" are 

 quite alike, save in the less developed red in the latter. Both have the 

 peculiarity of having many white ears, and these are not distiilguish- 

 able in the "red" and "bronze" rows. The "Amber Pearl" may have 

 peculiarities which definitely separate it from the "Queen's Golden." 

 The "'Mapledale Prolific," while showing differences from the "White 

 Pearl," are, as seen in the present test, no greater than among the 

 several rows of the "pearls" themselves. In the same way, the "Silver 

 Lace" does not appear to be distinct from tbe "White Pearl." The 



