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fertilized ovule is certain. When sweet maize is crossed with 

 dent pollen, the resulting grains have the appearance of flint 

 grains, being neither dented nor wrinkled, and have the taste of 

 dent maize. Sweet maize shows the influence of the current 



Black Mexican sweet-white dent cross. Ear I is Black Mexican sweet maize which v/as 

 used as the male parent. Ear 2 is a white dent variety used as the female parent. Ear 

 3 shows the intermediate result of the cross, grains from which were planted to produce 

 ears 4 and 5. Ear 4 was from the wrinkled or sweet grain of ear 3. Ear 5 was grown 

 from the dent grains of ear 3 (after McCluer). 



cross when pollinated by dent maize with such certainty that 

 grains which do not show the effect may be depended upon to 

 produce a pure product the next year.^ When sweet maize is 



^ II. I. Rpt. I9OI, pp. 227-24il. 



