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THE VEGETABLES OF NEW YORK 



much shorter than central stalk. Leaves medium long and moder- 

 ately narrow, 28-30 x 3-3 % inches, often red on the margin; sheath 

 shorter than and occasionally equal to internode. Tassel short 

 and slender, 12-15 inches; terminal spike erect; lateral spikelets 

 nearly erect, few, medium long and crowded; bracts and anthers 

 variable in color; 43-45 days to anthesis. 



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

 ears per stalk. Shank long, 3-8 inches, slender and brittle. Husk 

 leaves usually very long and heavy; husks moderately many, heavy, 

 and rather tightly wrapped. Husked ear long and slender, 8-10, 

 x 1 \ 2 1 *' » inches, slightly tapering; tip conical and slightly exposed, 

 very often nearly capped: rows 8-10, moderately straight, occasion- 

 ally spiral, crowded around the cob. 



Kernels at milk stage yellow, broad and shallow; at dry stage 

 bright yellow, small, much broader than long, .8 x 1.05 x .42 cm. 

 (108 seeds per ozJ : short, broad, oval in shape; crown very definitely 

 and uniformly rounded; surface smooth, entirely devoid of wrinkling; 

 set very tightly and firmly on cob. 



Early Canada. Refs. 87, 468. Syns. Canada Yel- 

 low, Canadian Yellow Flint, Early Eight Rowed 

 Canada. 

 This variety was mentioned by Salisbury in 1848 

 among others similar in type as an earlier and much 

 smaller variety than either the Large 8-rowed Yellow 

 Flint or the Middle Sized 8-rowed Yellow Flint. It was 

 of this variety that Salisbury speaks when he wrote con- 

 cerning the sweet varieties then in existence " There are 

 several sub-varieties — , and a new variety made by 

 crossing the sweet with the Early Canada." This sug- 



gests the possibility that the hybrid mentioned might 

 have been the precursor of the small-eared yellow sweet 

 varieties now represented by Golden Bantam. 



The following description is compiled from the 

 earlier authors, chief of whom were Salisbury and Burr. 



Plant 4-5 feet tall, stalks slender; leaves rather scanty. The 

 ears were small, 7 inches, uniform, tapering, eight-rowed with 

 prominent furrows between pairs of rows; kernels nearly semi- 

 circular at the crown; smooth, flinty surface, glossy orange-yellow 

 in color; cob small, white. 



Norwegian (17) was also much like Early Canada 

 but larger eared. 



Manhattan. Refs. 74, 271, 343, 450, 454, 503, 515, 

 528. 

 From 1895 to 1902, J. M. Thorburn & Co. listed this 

 as Thorburn's Manhattan Sweet Corn. It was credited 

 as being the earliest sweet corn grown ready for the 

 table in 6 weeks from the time of planting. The dry 

 kernels were not wrinkled and therefore the variety was 

 not a true sweet corn. It originated in the extreme 

 north as a yellow type, although occasionally the 

 ears showed both yellow and white kernels. We sus- 

 pect that Manhattan was another of the early Indian 

 corns similar to Alaska Indian and Canada Yellow. 

 When first introduced it was listed with the new, rare, 

 and valuable vegetable seeds. 



