THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE, 



DECEMBER, 1850. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Some Account of the Production of the Old Colony 

 Siceet Conij its Culture, 6fc. By Rev. A. R. Pope, 

 Somerville. 



Mr. Editor, — I cheerfully comply with your request for 

 the details of the culture of the Old Colony Sweet Corn, 

 which commanded the favorable notice of the Horticultural 

 Society's Committee at the Annual Exhibition. 



It is a hybrid, as any one can readily perceive by inspec- 

 tion, from the Southern White, and the common Sweet corn 

 of New England ; and exhibits certain characteristics of the 

 two varieties, combining the size of the ear and kernel, and 

 productiveness of the southern, with the sweetness and 

 tenderness of the northern parent ; — a southern head, rara 

 avis, with northern principles ! Indeed, nature seems to 

 have rewarded the effort to improve her productions, by 

 giving more than an even share of the desirable qualities 

 for table use. 



The process by which it was attained will date as far 

 back as 1845, when a single kernel, which escaped the 

 denizens of the barn-yard, was carried with the compost to 

 my garden in Kingston, (Old Colony,) and springing up, 

 was permitted, for the novelty, to develop its nature in a 

 huge stalk, bearing upon it, more or less matured, five ears 

 of corn, one of the ears having eighteen rows ! 



The productiveness, combined with the extraordinary size 



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