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crop, which will convey to them an assurance 

 of the fact, that corn will grow in England, 

 will give heartfelt pleasure to hundreds of thou- 

 sands of men, who are amongst the very best, or, 

 at least, the most hospitable, that this world ever 

 produced. 



26. With regard to the several sorts of com^ 

 they are, perhaps, as numerous as the sorts of 

 wheat, of which we knov/ from thirty to forty 

 in number. In the first place, these sorts are 

 divided into the Yellow and the White; next 

 into the Early and the Late ; of each of which 

 there are several of both colours. Then there 

 are several sorts of each colour, and also several 

 degrees in the earliness and the lateness of the 

 different sorts of the same colour. The white 

 corn is, in America, generally called jiint-corn, 

 and the yellow is called (jolden-corn. It is an in- 

 variable rule, that the later the corn is, that is to 

 say, the stronger heat it requires, the taller it is. 

 I have some corn plants now standing in my 

 garden at Kensington, which were twelve feet high 

 before the tops were cut off. The early sorts of 

 corn in America ; those sorts which ripen in New 

 England, in New Brunswick, and sometimes 

 even, in here and there a spot of that wretched 

 country. Nova Scotia ; all these sorts will occa- 

 sionally ripen in England with great care and 

 with favourable summers, I imported last year 



