HISTORY OF SWEET CORN 



of notes, but did not mention nor hint of 

 the cultivation of sweet corn. Timothy 

 Dwight, who traveled in New York and 

 New England during and previous to the 

 year 1817, and who was in Yale college 

 in 1795, claimed that there was a sweet 

 corn, known at that time by the name of 

 shriveled corn, which was maize of the 

 most delicious flavor if consumed in the 

 milky stage, and differed greatly from the 

 general field corn. He even claims that 

 this shriveled corn could be produced by 

 successive plantings for table use from mid- 

 July until mid-November. 



As far as is known, the first sweet corn 

 that was ever mentioned for sale was in 

 Thorburn's seed catalogue of the year 1825. 

 Only pne kind was named in this catalogue, 

 the so-called sugar or sweet corn. This 

 was the first time that Thorburn had ever 

 spoken by name of sweet corn. His 

 "Gardener's Calendar" of a few years 

 previous did not mention this product at 

 all. Neither Gardiner nor Hepburn in 1 8 1 8, 

 nor Fessenden's "New American Gardener" 



