DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIETIES 



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Golden Cream. Refs. 41, 45, 124, 141, 335, 344, 373, 

 377, 525. Syns. California Golden Country 

 Gentleman, Golden Bantam Shoe Peg, Golden 

 Country Gentleman. Illus. 25, 80. 

 When Country Gentleman was introduced in 1890 

 its sponsors were loud in their praise of its nectar-like 

 sweetness and its milky character. Perhaps this feature 

 led C. C. Morse & Co. of San Francisco, to bestow 

 the name Golden Cream on the new yellow corn which 

 they purchased from the originator, Thomas Gould 

 of Ventura. California. Mr. Gould had made a cross 

 between Country Gentleman and Golden Bantam, 

 naming his selection Golden Gentleman. Stock seed 

 was purchased by Mr. Morse in 1908, and after selec- 

 tions had been made, the variety was offered in 1911 

 under the name of Morse's Golden Cream. Seed was 

 sent East as early as 1910 for seed increase purposes and 

 so Dreer, Thorburn, Childs, and others listed the new 

 creation in 1911 and 1912. It was truly the cream 

 of the best, and only the shortness of the ear prevented 

 its being called the " golden twin " of true Country 

 Gentleman. This same shortness of ear probably was 

 the direct cause for its popularity being limited to the 

 home gardener. 



Country Gentleman and Golden Bantam were 

 crossed to produce Golden Cream. Fifteen years later 

 (1926) Peter Henderson 8b Co. introduced Golden 

 Country Gentleman, the result of a cross combining 

 " all the sugary sweetness, tenderness and lusciousness 

 of the original Country Gentleman, with the rich golden 

 color now in such favor with lovers of sweet corn." 

 Stocks of these two varieties, Golden Cream and Golden 

 Country Gentleman, grown at Geneva have been found 

 to be very nearly identical. 



Eighty-eight days were required to reach edible 

 maturity at Geneva. This proved to be 10 days later 

 than Golden Bantam and 2 days earlier than Bantam 

 Evergreen. Golden Cream is a taller grower than 

 Golden Bantam, and it possesses more leaves and a 

 tassel that is distinctly more bushy. With the exception 

 of Papago, the husks are more tightly wrapped than any 

 yellow variety. The silk is likewise much more abundant 

 and more uniformly red than that of any other yellow 

 sweet corn. 



Plant moderately tall, 5} 2-6 feet, stalks slender, moderately 

 straight: nodes 9-10, nearly covered, not prominent. Brace roots 

 occasionally present on one node, slender, neither complete nor 

 very useful. Tillers usually absent, decidedly shorter than central 

 stalk. Leaves medium long and narrow, 28-30 x 2 } ->-3 'j inches; 

 sheath equal to and longer than internode. Tassel moderately 

 short and slender, 14-16 inches, not colored at the base; terminal 

 spike erect; lateral spikelets drooping, simple with basal ones com- 

 pound, many present, short and crowded; bracts green, distinctly 

 striped with dark red, anthers very numerous, reddish bronze, 

 I terra cotta to vinaceous russet); 66-68 days to anthesis. 



Ears borne at 4th and 5th nodes, very often two ears per stalk. 

 Shank short, 2-3 inches, slender and brittle. Husk leaves very few 

 present, short and light; husks moderately few, very often streaked 

 with purple on exposed surface, tightly wrapped, not easily removed. 

 Silk uniformly dark red, long and very abundant. Husked ear 

 moderately short, moderately plump at butt end, 6-7 x l'j-l^ 

 inches, distinctly tapering; kernels arranged irregularly, no rows 



present, exceedingly crowded; rounded at the base and very sharply 

 conical at the tip; glumes very long and heavy. 



Kernels at milk stage yellow, very deep and narrow, not 

 uniform; at dry stage bright yellow, long, slender, peg-like or cuneate 

 in shape; 1.1 x .70 x .33 cm. (208 seeds per oz. I; crown often dimple 

 dented, angular; surface rough and rather finely and abundantly 

 wrinkled; set moderately loose. 



Golden Crosby. Ref. 21. 



The name Golden Crosby was given to a composite 

 of inbred strains produced by D. F. Jones at the Con- 

 necticut State Agricultural Experiment Station. The 

 first of the crossing was made in 1924. Several inbred 

 strains of Crosby sweet corn were received from the 

 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. Three of these 

 were crossed with inbred strains of Golden Bantam 

 originally obtained from the Vick Seed Company of 

 Rochester, New York. From these crosses several lines 

 were grown and self-pollinated for two generations. 

 The best of these lines having all yellow sweet seeds were 

 mixed and allowed to interpollinate. After 2 years the 

 resulting combination, selected toward the Crosby type 

 with all yellow kernels, was called Golden Crosby. The 

 first seed was sold in 1928 by the Associated Seed 

 Growers of New Haven, Connecticut. 



Edible ears were produced at Geneva in 75 days, 

 in season with Whipple's Yellow, 3 days earlier than 

 Golden Bantam and 3 days later than Golden Sunshine. 

 The plants are slightly shorter than Golden Bantam with 

 tillers more abundant and nearly equal to the central 

 stalk. The husked ear is slightly longer with the apex 

 more definitely tapering. The kernels in the milk 

 stage are more narrow and shallow with more rows 

 per ear than Golden Bantam. The compactness and 

 uniformity in kernel type indicate its similarity to the 

 Crosby type. 



Plant moderately short, 4 1 £-5 feet; stalks slender and moder- 

 ately zigzag; nodes 7-8, exposed and prominent. Tillers moder- 

 ately many, nearly as tall and often equal to central stalk. Leaves 

 medium long and moderately narrow, 23-30 x 3-3 'j inches; sheath 

 shorter than internode. Tassel medium long, 15-18 inches; termi- 

 nal spike erect; lateral spikelets moderately drooping, variable in 

 number, rather long and moderately scattered: bracts and anthers 

 variable in color; 54-56 days to anthesis. 



Ears borne at 2nd and 3rd nodes, one and occasionally two 

 ears per stalk. Shank variable in length. Husks few, moderately 

 short and rather tightly wrapped. Husked ear medium long and 

 plump, 7-8 x 1 3 4-1 7 3 inches, partly cylindrical and moderately 

 tapering; base distinctly rounded and compressed; tip sharply 

 conical and usually exposed; rows 12, regular and straight, very 

 crowded around the cob, uniform and attractive. 



Kernels at milk stage light yellow, moderately narrow and 

 shallow; at dry stage light golden orange, small, short, narrow and 

 moderately thick, .90 x .81 x .38 cm. (170 seeds per oz. >; distinctly 

 triangular in shape; crown slightly rounded; surface moderately 

 fine wrinkled; set very tight on cob. 



Golden Dawn. Refs. 57. 182, 196, 238, 241, 348, 403, 

 406, 411. Syn. Mammoth Golden Dawn. 

 Golden Dawn preceded the introduction of Bantam 

 Evergreen by 7 years. Henry A. Dreer of Philadel- 

 phia secured the seed stock in 1906 from Henry C. 

 Anthony of Newport, Rhode Island, a well-known market 

 gardener who was also a corn seed grower of considerable 

 repute. The exact origin of this strain possessed by 



