FIELD TRIALS WITH EGYPTIAN MAIZE IN 1915, 



By B. (i. ('. BOLLAND, 



Botanist to the Hinittry of Agriculture, 



With a view of studying the various types of maize grown in 

 the country and of arriving at a proper definition of the different 

 kinds, samples of twelve varieties were sown at Giza in the summer 

 of 1915. 



According to Sickenberger* there were eighteen varieties in the 

 country in 1900 and, as will be seen by the result of one year's work, 

 there are now just as many or more varieties grown, not by themselves, 

 but all mixed together. 



Selection and breeding work has therefore been started in order 

 to improve the quality and yield of the crop and obtain pure varieties. 



The following are the names of the varieties which were sown 

 between July 20 and 31. 



The following descriptions are given by Sickenberger : 

 Americdni. Cob white. Grain white, concave and convex mixed, 



dented. 

 Baladi. Cob white. Grain white and convex, not dented. 



* SlCKENBKBGKR, Mrm. fnxt, Kygpt., IV, pp. 303-30R (1901). 



