LUTHER BURBANK 



This, of course, accords perfectly with the 

 results of my experiments, as just recorded. But 

 the new tests, which explain the distribution of 

 kernels of different colors, and enables us to pre- 

 dict the manner of their distributjon, give added 

 interest to the earlier observations. 



I should add, however, that whereas it is usual 

 for the crossbred kernels to show this mixed dis- 

 tribution on a single ear, in more recent experi- 

 ments, in which the Orange sweet corn and a late 

 white variety were crossed, I have seciu*ed a prod- 

 uct in which there was a pure white ear that 

 exhibited all the qualities of the orange except 

 color, and in another case a pure yellow ear was 

 produced which showed the characteristics of the 

 late white, including the large number of rows of 

 kernels. 



This is altogether unusual in crossing yellow 

 and white varieties of corn, and the anomaly is 

 not easy to explain. 



Breeding foh Varied Qualities 



My other experiments with corn have been 

 rather numerous, but have largely been concerned 

 with minor details, such as the development 

 through selection of a corn that will produce ears 

 bearing a large number of rows of kernels. 



I have been able in three years, working with 

 Stowell's Evergreen Corn, to produce a few ears 



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