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It stands seven tx) seven and a half feet high, produces one 

 and two ears, seven to eight inches in length, well cover- 

 ed at apex ; rows eight at base, ten forming a cap, from which 

 circumstance, as well as being fully covered at summit, we trace 

 the origin of its name. 



" Large Virginia Denty 

 Requiring a long season to mature in it is better adapted for 

 cultivation in the southern states. With me it grew ten to elev- 

 en feet high, producing stalks of unusual stoutness, the leaves 

 broad and heavy, and in view of fruit and foliage it is a most 

 luxuriant plant. It rarely produces more than one ear which 

 is from ten to twelve inches long, twelve rowed and well filled 

 out. At the expiration of five months the sheaths were still 

 green and requiring a large supply of manure to sustain it until 

 maturity — do not even as far north as the present locality consid- 

 er it desirable for general cultivation. 



" Ohio Dent:' 

 This as I learn, the favorite of the tarmers of the State from 

 which it receives its name, attained the heighth of thirteen to 

 fourteen feet ; stalks comparatively slender and very straight 

 supporting its fruit four and a half to five feet above the ground, 

 producing one, occasionally two ears eight to ten inches long 

 and from twelve to sixteen rows ; grain milk white ; the depres- 

 sion on the crown continuing to the summit, which is not fully 

 covered. 



Though better adapted for cultivation in the south-western 

 States, it is nevertheless a rich variety. Its stately and hand- 

 some gnjwth renders it attractive on the field, and no doubt when 

 grown on the rich alluvial soil on the margin of the Ohio, yields 

 to the cultivator a return equally if not more remunerative than 

 our best varieties do to the growers in the northern States. Time 

 required for ripening five months. Resembles the Oregon ; the 

 eajps, however, are not so stout, and the rows more regularly set. 



' " Oregon^' 



A large variety said to be in general use on the western side of 

 the continent ; grows twelve to thirteen feet high ; ears usually 



