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MISCELLANEOUS VEGETABLES. 



the tip, uniformly eight-rowed, in four double rows ; kernel 

 roundish, smooth, and of a rich, glossy, orange-yellow 

 color ; cob small, white ; stalk four to five feet high, slen- 

 der ; the leaves are not abundant, and the ears, of which 

 the plant very rarely produces more than two, near the 

 ground. 



On account of the small size of the ear, the yield per acre 

 is much less than that of almost any other field variety ; 

 twenty-five or thirty bushels being an average crop. The 

 dwarfish character of the plants, however, admits of close 

 culture, three feet in one direction by two or two and a 

 half in the opposite affording ample space for their full de- 

 velopment ; four plants being allowed to a hill. 



Its chief merit is its early maturity. In or- 

 dinary seasons the crop will be fully ripened 

 in August. If cultivated for a series of years 

 in the Eastern or Middle States, or in a lati- 

 tude much warmer than that of the Canadas, 

 the plant increases in size, the ears and ker- 

 nels grow larger, and it is slower in coming 

 to maturity. 



Dutton. 



EARLY DUTTON. 



Ears nine or ten inches long, 

 broadest at the base, tapering 

 slightly towards the tip, ten or twelve rowed, 

 and rarely found with the broad clefts or longi- 

 tudinal spaces which often mark the divisions 

 into double rows in the eight-rowed varieties, 

 the outline being almost invariably smooth 

 and regular ; kernel as broad as deep, smooth, 

 and of a rich, clear, glossy, yellow color ; cob 

 comparatively large, white ; stalk of medium height and 

 strength, producing one or two ears. 



It is one of the handsomest of the field varieties, nearly as 



Button Com. 



