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%. Two ears yellowish dent, with a few dark yellow kernels. 
8. One ear red dent, one much pink, eleven ears white; yellow and 
red blotched kernels, with a few sweet kernels in all. 
9. Five ears yellow, white and red blotched kernels, a few sweet. 
12. Four ears white dent, with a few yellow dent and sweet kernels. 
The number of rows to the unpodded ears is given below; the rows 
on the podded ears could not be counted in many cases, and hence are 
not given. : 
Total 
Series. Rows on ear. 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 ears. 
Veo en E 1 5 7 4 1 19 
ete hep oem ‘ye sp 4 Ora EB aL 
ne te até )c 6 « peepee, 3 ‘a ihe Ae ie ae 
Beeches t. s'6 A ips Gs 6 4 3 1 1 16 
2 a iy 3 >See Sra 1 1 : 8 
OU ; : ae 2 1 3 6 
ico oe i ee 2 be aA ay 2 
Briere ty Rebs setts, «) » niin tas a il Fy 6 4 1 12 
RIMS eno) 38 ae ke Ad 1 1 3 ita i‘? 5 
er Ree LY «s/w « tt dis 1 A ot nee is Pt 4 
Although a yellow flint corn was growing beside these plants, yet it 
was generally out of bloom before silk appeared upon the pod variety, 
and in general this was the case with the other flint varieties grown, 
hence there was perhaps no cross-fertilization with the flints. There 
was a possibility of cross-fertilization from the dents and sweets grown 
in the garden, yet we noted no seed upon the ears differing in any 
respect from the last year’s harvest, or from varieties grown alongside 
or at a near distance.« 
This variety of corn has many stay-roots, and requires hilling in 
culture in order to secure safety against winds. It is of a tall, vigorous, 
leafy growth, and seemed to us to furnish more available forage than 
any other variety grown by us. The prevalence of smut, probably a 
peculiarity of our seed supply, seems the only objection to its use for 
growing for forage purposes. 
The plant is certainly too variable to be considered a wild species, 
and it also has parallelism of structure of the kernel with some of our 
cultivated races. ‘The seeds of the Brazilian variety produce, accord- 
ing to Professor Asa Gray, both common and podded ears, as did our 
seed. ‘I'he number of rows to the -ear seems to furnish an argument 
against its being an aboriginal form of maize, for from the always find- 
ing even numbered rows, we should rather expect the original form to 
be distichous, in two rows only instead of from twelve to twenty-four 
rows; as also we should expect a smaller seed, and one less subject to 
destruction from insect ravages. The fastigiate ears may, however, 
furnish ground for the supposition that such was the earlier form, 
groups of ears of small size and imperfect kernelling, from which a 
single ear has been evolved through continual selections. Yet, in the 
present state of our knowledge, any definite conclusions in this respect 
would be hazardous. | 
Size of Seed-Kernel. 
The influence of planting abnormally small kernels of a variety was 
tried in three cases. In the first case forty-eight seed picked from an 
