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Nosoyo Ree 18D, 
Ears five to eight inches long. One ear 14-rowed, three ears 16-rowed, one ear 
18-rowed. Description identical with No. 1876. 
* No hybridization apparent, 
1878. Cloud’s Early Mammoth Chester (Landreth). 
Ears four to eight inches long. Eighteen to 20-rowed. No Cifference percept- 
ible between this and Nos. 1876 and 1877. 
*No hybridization apparent. 
1879. Hundred Day (Gregory) : 
Ears four to eight inches long. Some ears are the Wisconsin Yellow of 
Vaughan, other ears are larger, with a broader sulcus between the rows, and 
larger ear stalk. Color, yellow-orange ; cob, red... Four ears 12-rowed, three ears 
14-rowed, three ears 16-rowed, three ears 18-rowed, one ear 20-rowed. 
* Some white dent kernels. 
1880. Little Red Cob (Sibley) : 
October 14; too unripe for preservation or description. 
1881. Maryland White Gourd Seed (Landreth). 
Ears four to seven inches long. Ear-stalk small; ear slightly tapering, round- 
ing strongly at butt, evenly at tip, which is not filled. Color, white, on summit, 
horny-white on lower part of kernel. Sixteen to 18-rowed. 
.* Some few kernels yellowish-white dent on tip, yellowish-orange below; ~ 
occasionally a few purple stripes on the white kernels. 
1882. Queen of the Prairie (Gregory) : 
Ears four to six inches long. Ear-stalk small; ear slightly tapering, well 
rounded at butt, a little pointed at tip, which is uncovered. Color, yellowish- 
érange; cob,reddish. Two forms of ear, the one with deep, thin kernels, flat on 
top, the true type; the other with thick rounded kernels, with a dimple, the 
sulci between rows quite prominent. Fourteen to 18-rowed. 
* Some few white dent kernels. 
1888. Rural Union (Rural New Yorker) : 
Ears three to eight inches long. Cob, red ; otherwise the same description ap- 
plies as for Benton Dent, No. 1874. Twelve ears 8-rowed, two ears 10-rowed. 
* The ears vary considerably in color, some being orange-yellow on summit of 
kernel, and deep, horny-orange below; others yellowish-white on summit, and 
horny-orange below ; some reddisli-white on top, and horny-buff below, etc., etc. 
Otherwise no hybridization apparent. 
1884. Sibley’s Pride of the North (Gregory). 
Ears four to seven and one-half inches long. Two forms of ears, the one like 
Queen of the Prairie, true type, No. 1882, the other with “a pronounced sulcus, 
The two numbers 1882 and 1884 produced the same kind of ears as if mixed seed 
of the two had been used in each case. 
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*Some few white dent kernels. 
1885. White dent kernels from unhusked ear of pod corn; the ear had white, 
sweet kernels, and was grown from a red.ear of pod corn. 
Ears five tonine inches long. “Five red dent, unhusked ears, with red cob ; five 
white dent unhusked ears, with red cob, and one yellow fiint ear, with white cob. 
The dent ears like those grown in 1882 and 1883 from pod corn. The flint ears, 
Early Dutton. 
*Red, sweet, kernels, on red ears; white, sweet, and yellow dent on the 
white ears, white sweet and white flint on the flint ear. 
1886. White dent kernels from a white, sweet ear, from unhusked ear of pod 
corn (Station) : 
Nine white, dent ears, five to eight inches long, one husked ear, four inches 
long. Hight ears tapering, resembling the dent ears of No. 1885 ; one ear resem- 
bles Blount’s Prolific 10-rowed ; the husked ear cone form, long husks. Cob, red, 
on eight of the nine dent ears, white on the Blount’s Prolific. 
* White sweet kernels on all the ears, and red-striped and golden sweet, and 
red-striped dent on the one Blount’s Prolific ear. 
