CHAPTER IL 



Description and History of Cobbett's Corn, and 

 an Account of the Several Sorts of it, 



11. On the opposite page is a pretty accurate 

 representation of a plant of Indian Corn, of the sort 

 of which I am about to treat, and to which, in 

 order to distinguish it from other sorts, I give the 

 name of " Cobbett's Corn." The height of the 

 plant, from the ground to the tip-top, is, with good 

 land and good culture, about four feet. The draw- 

 ing exhibits a plant in its most beautiful state, with 

 all its blades at their full size and length, with the 

 bloom on the tassel, and with the silk hanging 

 down from the ears, which are covered by their 

 husks; a the tassel ; 5, the top; c, c, c, c, four 

 of the BLADES ; d, d, d, three ears ; e, e, e, the 

 silks;/*,/, the stalk; ff, the root. This is 

 a representation of the plant as it stands in the 

 month of August ; late in that month, or early in 

 September. The tassel is the fowei* of the plant , 

 and it hears farina resembling that of the wheat- 

 ear; but the grains, instead of being deposited 

 in chests in the flower, are deposited in the ears, 

 which come out of the stalk lower down, and 

 the silk receives the farina as it falls, by which 



