BREEDING AND CURING 



of the sugary grandparent in the single 

 factor of sweetness. By separating these 

 sweet grains from their starchy mates and 

 planting them under isolation, the breeder 

 will have a pure sweet corn, there having 

 been no starchy factor in any that was 

 planted; for if there had been, the grains 

 would not have been sweet. 



"In some particulars, this new cross may 

 be different from any previously known 

 kind of sweet corn, and in some particulars 

 there will be a blending of the factors that 

 are of the same sort. Thus, while the 

 sweet parent plant was of medium height, 

 the cross may show a taller stalk and 

 midway between the two parents. In the 

 same way, the ear may be larger than one 

 or smaller than the other; and, for example, 

 should the sweet parent have eight-rowed 

 ears, the cross may show the number of 

 rows, ranging from 8 to, 16, the latter being 

 the number of the field sort, 



"To return to the original cross, it was 

 noted that the starchy male parent impressed 

 itself at once upon the sweet female parent, 



III 



