322 MAIZE 



CHAP, tip; diameter, I \ inches; slowly tapering ; butt even, enlarged 

 and open ; rows, 10. Grain 6 lines broad, 5 lines deep, thick, 

 rounded above, flattish on sides, dusky white, embryo large. 

 Shank large. Cob rather thick, white. Steins, 5 feet, not 

 tillering, ears borne low ; maturing fairly early. Ears from 

 W. Gillespie, Rietpoort, Zandspruit, Transvaal, 1909, who 

 grew it from seed obtained in Natal. Grown in Natal for 

 some years ; catalogued by Kirchoff, Howie, etc. ; said to make 

 a good table maize. Has been described as a hybrid between 

 sugar and flint maize, but in South Africa it shows no sign of 

 sugariness. 



269. Gillespie Yellow. — Fig. 121. Class: medium yellow 

 flint; rows, 12; length, 1 of to 11 inches; circumference at 2 

 inches from butt, 5J inches, from tip, 4| inches ; cob red ; grain 

 reddish. Selection towards a lighter coloured grain would be 

 desirable from a commercial point of view. 



A red-cobbed segregate obtained by Mr. W. Gillespie, 

 Rietpoort, Zandspruit, Transvaal, and exhibited at the Johan- 

 nesburg Maize Show, 191 o. 



270. Indian Pearl. — Class : parti-coloured flint. Ears long. 

 Cob thin, white. Grain small, roundish, of high feeding quality, 

 mixed dark red, purple, blue or pearly white on the same or 

 on separate ears. Medium early; yield good to medium. 

 Stem medium height, tillering freely, leafy, good for ensiling. 

 Introduced by the writer in 1903 from Vilmorin, Paris (No. 

 639'03). Grown for some years at the Government Experi- 

 ment Farm at Potchefstroom, and distributed, but now dis- 

 carded. The strain has entered into the composition of other 

 breeds, and occasionally crops out as a "reversion " ; probably 

 the source of the red colour in Claret Sugar. Probably one 

 of the earliest forms introduced into the Old World, and of 

 common parentage with the "Squaw" or "Native" maize 

 grown by the Indians of the Northern United States and 

 Canada. 



27 1. The Principal Breeds of Soft Maize or Flour Com. — 

 Owing to their poor keeping quality in districts subject to 

 weevil and grain moth, and their consequent unsuitability for 

 export, the flour corns are now but little grown in countries 

 of large maize production. There are, therefore, but few com- 

 mercial breeds. 



