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We offer some notes relating to each planting, with such deserip- 
tions as will serve to identify, paying heed in general to diagnostic 
characters alone, in order that others, to whom our conelusions in 
regard to cross-fertilization may be found interesting, shall have the 
material for an independent judgment. Information of the charac- 
ter here attempted is especially desirable to those who would origin- 
ate new and improved varieties, as well as to those who would grow, 
varieties which shall be uniform in type, and deserving of the name 
of thoroughbred. So long as the universal belief exists that maize 
eross-fertilizes with every thing of the maize species so readily and 
certainly as to forbid separation and intensifying of good qualities, 
by a single grower, just so long the possibility and desirability of 
growing and improving our varieties will not receive judicious 
recognition on the part of the great mass of those who should be 
interested : : 
SWERTS. 
1800. Alexander’s Sweet (new; seed from Mr. Alexander): 
Ears four to eight inches long. lEar-stalk small to medium; ear cylirdgical, or 
slightly tapering, in the many-rowed; kernels crimped, a little pointed at tip. 
Two ears 8-rowed, eight ears 10-rowed, four ears 12-rowed, one ear 14-rowed. 
Color, white; cob, white. 
* Some black sweet kernels; yellow, white and slate-colored flint. 
1801, Amber Cream (Sibley): 
Ears four to eight and one-half inches iong. THar-stalk small to medium; ear 
slightly tapering, rounded a little at butt and a little pointedly at tip. Color, 
flesh-red; cob, white. Four ears 8-rowed, five ears 10-rowed, and ten ears 12- 
rowed. 
* Some few reddish, flint kernels. All the ears on type, except the 8-rowed, 
which may be considered slightly off, and which resemble the picture of Briggs’ 
Early somewhat, 
1802. Asylum (Thorburn): | = 
Ears four to seven inches long. Ear-stalk medium small; earslightly tapering, 2 
nearly cylindrical, rounding at butt and at tip. Color, white; white cob. Three 
_ ears 10-rowed, ten ears 12-rowed, three ears 14-rowed. 
* Some few black sweet and white flint kernels. 
1803, Black Mexican (Ferry): | 
Seed failed to vegetate. : 
1804, Improved Black Mexican (Alexander): 
Ears four to seven inches long. Ear-stalks small; ear cylindrical, rounding 
slightly at butt, a little pointed at tip which does not fill well. Color, slate-black; = 
cob, white. Sixteen ears 8-rowed, four ears 10-rowed. ; 
* Some slate-black flint kernels —on some ears very numerous. Te 
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1805. Brighton Orange (Gregory): J 
Kars four to six and one-half inches long. Ear-stalks small; ear cylindrical, or . 
very slightly tapering, rounding a little at butt, tip not covered. Color, white, ; 
with no tinge of orange; cob, white. Three ears 8-rowed, seven ears 10-rowed, — 
seven ears 12-rowed. Tu 
* Some black sweet, white and yellow flint kernels; some ears half black. a 
Not the Orange Early, Fig. 350, Rural New Yorker, September 6, 1884. 
A * signifies hybridization observed. 

