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slightly at butt, abruptly capped at tip ; ear apt to be slightly curved. Color, 
white; cob, white. ‘Twenty-three ears 8-rowed ; one ear 10-rowed. 
* Some few yellow flint kernels, and occasionally a purplish flint kernel. 
1860. Rural Thoroughbred (Gregory): 
Ears six to twelve inches long. Har-stalk medium to largish; ear cylindrical 
type, but tapering always through the great openness always found between the 
pairs ofrows, which give a coarse appearance to the ear. Scarcely rounded at 
. butt, not filling at tip. Color, white; cob, white. Twenty ears 8-rowed, but of 
these but seven had kernels, 
* Very many yellow flint kernels. 
1861. Sanford (Gregory): 
Ears four to ten inches long. THar-stalk smallish ; ear cylindrical in type, but 
usually tapering through added kernels toward butt, where it rounds slightly ; 
abruptly rounded at tip, which does not fill, Kernels white on summit; horny 
white below ; cob, white. Seventeen ears 8-rowed; one ear 10-rowed. 
* Some yellow flint kernels. 
1862. Topover (from Nantucket): 
‘Ears six and one-half to eight and one-half inches long. Har-stalk very small; 
not as large as a.pipe-stem, and set in a hollow, caused by the rounding of the 
kernels at butt ; butt and tip rounded alike, so as to be difficult to discriminate 
at first sight when the stalk is broken off; ear cylindrical; kernels rounded at 
summitt, closely compressed at sides; golden yellow, with a scarcely lighter 
. Shade at summit; cob, white. Fifteen ears 8-rowed ; two ears 10-rowed. A 
wonderfully distinct and remarkable variety. 
* No appearance of hybridization. 
1863. Waushakum (Gregory): 
Ears seven to eight and one-half inches long. Fourteen ears 8-rowed. 
1864. Waushakum (Home seed): 
Kars seven to ten inches long. Sixteen ears 8-rowed. 
1865. Waushakum. Harvested at edible maturity (Station): 
HKars six to nine inches long. Nineteen ears 8-rowed. 
The same description to Nos. 1863, 1866 and 1865. Ear-stalk small to medium; 
ear cylindrical ; rather compressed toward butt, tapering slightly in lower fourth, 
well capped at tip. Color, golden yellow ; cob, white. 
* No appearance of hybridization. 
1866. Dark red seed from Eight-rowed purple (Station): 
Ears seven to nine and one-half inches long. Ear-stalk medium small ; ear 
slender ; cylindrical but swollen at butt; well covered at tip. Hight dark purple 
red ears with red cob, eight orange yellow ears with white cob. Five ears 8-rowed 
and three ears 10-rowed of the red, and nine ears 8-rowed of the yellow. 
* No hybridization apparent on red ears. White and slate-colored flint kernels 
in the yellow ears. 
1867. Slate-colored flint from ears of Golden Sweet (Station) : 
Kars four and one-half to nine inches long. LEar-stalk small, ears tapering ; 
scarcely rounded at butt; rather pointed toward tip. Color exceedingly mixed. 
Cob, white. Nineteen ears 8-rowed ; two ears 10-rowed; one ear 12-rowed. 
* Yellow, white, yellow red striped, white red striped, slate, purple, olive, 
greenish and blackish flint kernels; white, red, yellow and black sweet kernels ; 
all the colors occurring in several shades. 
1868. Flinty kernels from Sibley’s Pride of the North dent (Station) : 
Kars four to seven inches long. Sixteen flint ears, of which ten ears are 8- 
rowed ; six ears 10-rowed ; five dent ears, of which one ear is 8-rowed ; two ears 
10-rowed ; two ears 12-rowed The flint ears correspond to Waushakum Flint ; 
the dent ears to Sibley’s Pride of the North. 
* A very few purplish dent kernels on dent ears; a very few slate-colored flint 
kernels on flint ears. One flint ear has indented kernels, but the structure @ that 
of a flint. 
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