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No. 17. New Jersey. Eight rows. 

 No. 18. New York. Ten rows. 

 B a. ^ B h. Mandan Indian corn. 

 No. 19. A mixture of No. 12 and No. 15. Grown 



in the Indian village of Mandan. 

 B c. White Saccharine or sugar corn. 

 No. 30. The early Saccharine, twelve rows, grains 

 shrunken. 



C. Haemetite, or blood red Indian corn. 



No. 21. Common sized haemetite, with twelve 



rows and red cob. 

 No. 22. The red cob with white grains. 

 No. 23. The red cob with yellow grains. 

 No. 24. The red cob with brown grains. 

 No. 25. The red cob with white gourd seed. 

 No. 26. The red cob with gourd seed and yellow 



flint. 

 No. 27. White cob with red grain. 

 No. 28. Speckled red and yellow grains on a 



white cob. 

 No. 29. The same on a red cob. 

 No. 30. The dwarf liaBmetite, commonly called 



Guinea corn. 



D. Blue corn. 



No. 31. Blue corn. Ten rows. 



E. No. 32. The corn of Texas ; each grain is en- 

 closed in a pod or husk, and the ear in a husk. 



No. 33. Corn found in an envelope of a Mexican 



mummy. (The cast.) 

 No. 34. Corn grown near Sheffield, Yorkshire, 



England, in 1835, from seed raised by Wil- 



laim Cobbett. 

 No. 35. The famous Button Corn." 



In answering the question, " Is the Indian corn ca- 

 pable of being improved by culture ?" he gives us a 

 letter from Thomas N. Baden, Esq., of Maryland, 



