80 AMERICAN GARDENER. 



142. Here we have the different sorts asseni 

 bled in the same ear, each grain retaining all its 

 distinctive marks, and all the qualities, too, that 

 distinguish it from the other two. Sometimes, 

 however, the mixture takes place in a different 

 way, and the different colours present themselves 

 in streaks in all the grains of the ear, rendering 

 the colour of the grain?, "variegated instead of 

 their being one-coloured. 



143. It is very well known, that effects like 

 this are never perceived, unless in cases where 

 different sorts of Indian Corn grow at no great 

 distance from each other. Probably, too, to pro- 

 duce this intermixture, the plants of the seve- 

 ral sorts must be all of the s^ime age ; must all be 

 equal in point of time of blowing and kerning. 

 But, be this as it may, thtfact of intermixture 

 is certain ; and, we have only to know the fact to 

 be induced to take effectual measures to provide 

 against it. 



144. As to bees carrying the matter, and/m 

 firegnating plants with it, the idea appears non- 

 sensical ; for, how comes it that whole fields of 

 Indian Corn are thus mixed? And, in the Indian 

 Corn, let it be observed, the ear, that is to say, 

 the grain-hialk t is at about four feet from the 

 ground, while the Jloiver is, perhaps, eight or ten 

 feet from the ground ! What, then, is the bee 

 (which visits only the flower) to carry the matter 

 to the flower, and is the flower then to hand it 

 cLoiun to the ear? Oh, no ! this is much too clum- 

 sy and bungling work to be believed in. The 

 effect is, doubtless, produced by scent, or smell ; 

 for, observe, the ear is so constructed, and is, at 

 this season, so guarded, so completely enveloped, 



