INDIAN CORN. 



And the glow-worm came 

 With its silvery flame, 

 And sparkled and shone 

 Through the night of St. John, 

 As they closed the cold grave o'er the maid's cold clay." 



There may formerly have been a similar custom in 

 England, or it may be to the custom of Saxony that Harte 

 alludes, where enumerating certain flowers, he adds 



" And that which on the Baptist's vigil sends 

 To nymphs and swains the vision of their friends." 



As the flowers, rubbed between the fingers, yield a red 

 juice, it has also obtained the name of sanguis hominis 

 [human blood] among fanciful medical writers. 



Cowper speaks of the Hypericum as remarkably full of 

 blossom : the species vary in this particular : 



" Hypericum all bloom, so thick a swarm 

 Of flowers, like flies clothing her slender rods, * 

 That scarce a leaf appears." 



INDIAN COEN. 



ZEA. 



MONOECIA TBIANDRIA. 



Called also Maize ; Turkey Corn. French, le mais ; mayz ; hie de 

 Turquie ; ble d'Espagne [Spanish corn] ; ble de Guinee [Guinea 

 corn] ; ble d'Inde [Indian corn] ; gros millet des Indes [great Indian 

 millet]. Italian, gran Turco, furmento Turco [Turkey wheat] ; for- 

 mentone ; grano dlndia ; meliga. 



THIS corn should be sown early in April, in large deep 

 pots. It may be sown, at first, several in one pot, and 

 afterwards removed ; transplanting them into separate pots 

 about the end of May. It will not grow so high in a pot 

 as in the open ground, but is worth raising in this manner 

 for the sake of its long elegant leaves. It should stand in 

 the open air, and, in dry weather, be watered every even- 



