A Freak Ear of Corn 



This curious seed cluster was developed in the course of 

 the hybridizing experiments with teosinte and corn. Doubtless 

 it tells the story did we only know how to read it of some ances- 

 tral strain in which the seeds grow in a rounded cluster, little 

 suggestive of the long ear that characterizes the modern 

 product. But the kernels of this freak ear have 

 after all a good deal of the corn quality. 



