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THE VEGETABLES OF NEW YORK 



Cupid, Early Malcolm, Early Market, Silver Bantam, 

 Surprise, and White Sunrise. 



Pickaninny, a dwarf 8-rowed black, which originated 

 at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada, 

 should be mentioned because it is the first departure 

 from the old and well-known Black Mexican. Will 

 has stated that black sweet corn is very readily produced 

 when either natural or intentional crosses occur between 

 black and very dark blue flint or flour corn varieties 

 and any of the sweet corn varieties. 



The total number of yellow varieties which have been 

 introduced is much smaller than the list of whites. Out- 

 standing in the list are Banting, Bantam Evergreen, 

 Barden's Wonder Bantam, Buttercup, Charlevoix, Gold 

 Coin, Golden Bantam, Golden Early Market, Golden 

 Gem, Golden Giant, Golden Nugget, Golden Rod, 

 Golden Sweet, Spanish Gold, Sunshine, Seymour's 

 Sweet Orange, and Whipple's Yellow. With the excep- 

 tion of Golden Sweet and the original Golden Nugget, 

 all of these are grown today and are by far the most 

 popular group of sweet corn varieties. 



Variety names have served to designate types and 

 forms throughout the period that sweet corn has been 

 grown. Within recent years plant breeders have 

 brought into existence new methods of producing sweet 

 corn seed which involve the use of top crosses, inbreds, 

 and hybrid inbreds. The seed produced has proved 

 superior in yield and uniformity and has shown great 

 possibilities in respect to disease resistance. The future 

 alone will determine to how great an extent seed pro- 

 duced by these methods will replace the named varieties 

 we have known for so long. 



The organizations which originated the first-year 



crosses have under their control the various inbred stocks 

 necessary to perpetuate the hybrid. The inbreds must 

 be maintained and the cross made each year. There is, 

 therefore, considerably greater cost in producing seed 

 of these stocks in comparison to the regular commercial 

 varieties. The grower will have to determine after a 

 trial whether or not the higher cost of seed will be com- 

 pensated by higher yields and a higher quality product. 

 It has been determined that the reaction of hybrid corn 

 to a particular set of environmental conditions is very 

 specific; thus, it may be necessary to test out many 

 hybrids before the strain best suited is secured. 



There are several of these new " combination varie- 

 ties " ready for the grower. Bantam Evergreen Hybrid, 

 Country Gentleman Hybrid, Crosgreen, Green Cross, 

 Golden Cross, Golden Cross Bantam, Kingscrost, Narrow 

 Grain Hybrid, Redgreen, Tendergold, Top Cross Bantam, 

 and Stowell's Evergreen Hybrid are some of the first 

 names that have been chosen for the representative 

 types. 



All of the varieties considered in this text could not 

 have originated or been introduced without careful work 

 on the part of many individuals. The incompleteness 

 of this list is to be regretted, but information on this 

 aspect of the history of sweet corn varieties is exceedingly 

 meagre. Some of the outstanding men are H. C. 

 Anthony, C. A. Barden, Fearing Burr, Jr., Luther 

 Burbank, C. S. Clark, Everett B. Clark, William Cory, 

 Josiah Crosby, Noyes Darling, Dr. Frederick S. De Lue, 

 J. J. H. Gregory, D. F. Jones, A. C. Kendel, Capt. 

 J. B. Moore, Arthur L. Richie, T. F. Ritchie, Thomas 

 Potter, H. J. Seymour. G. M. Smith, Henry Stabler, 

 Nathan Stowell, Silas Whipple, and A. F. Yeager. 



