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THE VEGETABLES OF NEW YORK 



short and light. Husks many, long, rather light but tightly wrapped, 

 particularly about the tip, difficult to remove. Silk moderately 

 long, abundant and red in color. Husked ear moderately long and 

 moderately plump, 8-9 x 1J&-2 inches, moderately tapering; base 

 somewhat enlarged but compressed; tip conical and slightly exposed; 

 rows 14-16, moderately straight, occasionally lost at the medial, 

 crowded around the cob. 



Kernels at milk stage white, small, narrow and short; at dry 

 stage opalescent white, much longer than broad, 1.1 x .78 x .39 cm. 

 1,164 seeds per oz.); triangular; crown nearly straight; surface rather 

 sparsely and shallowly wrinkled; set rather loosely on cob. 



Eight-Rowed. Refs. 13, 22, 59, 65, 73, 89, 90, 91, 93, 

 173, 207, 208, 214, 364, 397, 405, 406, 414, 417, 

 427, 428, 482, 503, 507, 508, 514, 533, 536, 537, 

 552. Syns. Brigg's Early Sweet, Earliest Large, 

 Early Eight-Rowed, Early Eight-Rowed Sugar, 

 Early Large Eight-Rowed, Eight-Rowed Sugar, 

 Large Eight-Rowed Sugar, Late Eight-Rowed, 

 Mammoth Sweet Eight-Rowed, New England, 

 New England 8-Rowed, New England Eight- 

 Rowed Early, New England Sugar, New England 

 Sweet, North Pole, Rochester, Rochester Eight- 

 Rowed. 

 When only one variety existed to represent any one of 

 the separate types the name chosen for that variety could 

 well have been a name that in itself expressed some 

 characteristic of the variety. Thus Eight-Rowed Early 

 signified an early variety with 8-rowed ears. When the 

 word Dwarf was added to this then it of course became 

 dwarf, early and 8-rowed. Likewise the words sweet 

 or sugar appended to a name indicated that the variety 

 was particularly noted for this quality. Eight-Rowed 

 was offered in the catalogs of the early seed merchants 

 with all the possible combinations of these descriptive 

 adjectives. 



As the number of varieties grew and as selections 

 made on the basis of minor differences in plant or ear 

 were offered it became more and more difficult to arrange 

 these few words in the name so as to indicate the actual 

 differences. In a relatively short period there were 

 perhaps 5 to 10 strains that came under the general 

 classification of 8-rowed each presumably separated by 

 the terms early, dwarf, late, large, sweet, etc. Eventu- 

 ally these qualifying words fell into disuse which led 

 to the removal of the name Eight-Rowed from catalog 

 use, inasmuch that it did not sufficiently separate one 

 8-rowed variety from another. 



Eight-Rowed as such was first listed about 1867. 

 Sturtevant writes in the report of 1884, " very likely 

 the sweet or sugar of Bridgeman, 1832, and the Eight - 

 Rowed Sugar of Schenck, 1854." All available descrip- 

 tions of this variety very strongly indicate that, although 

 the word early was used, it reached edible maturity 

 in New York State anywhere from 86 to 93 days and 

 produced vigorous plants with long ears. The descrip- 

 tion to follow represents a compilation of Sturtevant's 

 work with that of Burrill and McClure. 



Plant moderately tall, 6-7} 2 feet or more, stalks rather 

 slender, tillers few; tassel slender and drooping. Ears borne 20-30 

 inches from the ground; husked ears long and moderately plump, 

 8-10 x I?- I 7 - inches, strongly tapering from the medial to the 

 apex; rows 8, often separated in pairs, especially near the base; 



kernels in milk stage white; at dry stage dull white, broadly rounded 

 over the crown, broader than deep, ' 2 inch wide, :i g inch deep 

 crinkled." 



Everbearing. Refs. 76, 97, 126, 350, 351, 367, 368, 

 403, 411, 443, 509, 510, 513, 533, 535, 537, 538. 

 Syn. New Everbearing. 

 Everbearing, when introduced by Wm. Henry Maule, 

 Philadelphia, in 1892, and W. Atlee Burpee Seed Co., 

 presented a rather new and distinct plant type. The 

 husk and stalks were of a distinct red color and as 

 an additional feature " the stalk usually produced 

 2 good ears; when these ears were taken off another lot 

 of ears set and developed on the same stalk." The 

 editor of the Rural New Yorker raised the question as 

 to how this new set was pollinated, for unless new 

 tassels were also present there would not be fresh pollen 

 for the late ears. The second set was probably the 

 ears on the tillers which received their pollen at the 

 same time as the early ears, the development of these 

 ears being delayed. As reported by Price and Drinkard 

 the plant of Everbearing was above medium in height, 

 stout and a healthy grower with ears short, small and 

 with 12 rows. The variety was listed for about 10 

 years although the name has been used in late years as 

 a synonym of Howling Mob. 



Extra Early Dawn. Ref. 229. 



This variety, offered sometime previous to 1914 by 

 Thos. Griswold & Co. of South Wethersfield, Connecticut, 

 was in no way similar to the variety listed in 1892 by 

 Johnson & Stokes as Early Dawn. It had been in use for 

 many years and was introduced as the earliest sweet corn 

 in cultivation. It was undoubtedly a selection from Red 

 Cory and originated in Vermont. In form, size and 

 appearance it somewhat resembled that variety but was 

 a week or ten days earlier. For a few years it was 

 quite popular. It was listed by Joseph Harris in 1912, 

 as Early Dawn by Thorburn in 1919 and by Vick in 

 1922, the latter describing it with ears 6 inches long, 

 8 rows of clear juicy kernels sometimes tinged with red. 

 The strain which became Early Dightcn probably came 

 as the result of selection from Extra Early Dawn. 



Farmers' Club. Refs. 9, 14, 215. Syns. Farm Club, 

 Farmers' Club Sweet, New York Farmer's Club, 

 Olcott, Olcott's Farmers' Club, Trimble, Trimble's 

 Improved, Trimble's Sugar. 

 The first notice of this unusual variety, accord- 

 ing to available records, appeared in the 1869 catalog 

 of James J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 

 although a year later it was offered by other seeds- 

 men, including Dreer and Hovey. At that time it 

 was reported that the entire plant was of a red caste, 

 but producing white ears " remarkably sweet and 

 tender." Dreer called it the " richest, sweetest, tender- 

 est of all with stalks and leaves medium size, heavily 

 marked with purple." 



Recently a variety of sweet corn called Farmers' 

 Club, which appeared to fit the above description, was 

 observed at Milford, Connecticut. Dr. D. F. Jones of 

 the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New 



