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fully as great. But the stalks were much 

 shorter and more compact than those of the 

 other plants. 



The object of suckering, of course, was to 

 secure a large crop of quadricolor corn in order 

 that the experiments might be carried out more 

 extensively in the next generation. 



The attempt was altogether successful. Not 

 only did we secure an abundant supply of the 

 quadricolor, but I found also two stalks among 

 many that bore leaves in which the tendency of 

 striping with varied colors had been greatly 

 accentuated, producing a variety that might be 

 called multicolor corn. 



In addition to the four colors borne by the 

 other plants, these had stripes of bronze and 

 chocolate, and arranged in far more pleasing 

 manner than in any of the former plants. 



It was by selecting seed from these plants that 

 I grew in the next generation a number of stalks 

 in which this tendency to multiply striping was 

 accentuated, thus producing a race of corn with 

 leaves beautifully striped in six colors, to which 

 the name Rainbow Corn has been given. 



In perfecting the variety, nothing further was 

 necessary than to select seed from the plants that 

 showed the most even distribution of the stripes, 

 and the most vivid display of color, as well as 



