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kernels usually crinkled, never in contact, rounding over cob at 
but ; ears remain long in edible condition; plant rather large ; sea- 
son late. 
+ White cob and whitish kernel. 
26. Squantum. Ears six to seven inches long, about two inches 
in diameter at the but, strongly tapering to a seldom well-filled tip ; 
twelve to 14-rowed; kernels large, crimped, not closely in contact ; 
plant six to six and a half feet tall, bearing its ears about twenty- 
four inches from the ground. : 
Introduced about 1883, and perhaps gained by selection from Pot- 
ter’s Hxcelsior, or the Rhode Island Asylum. 
27. Porrer’s Excursion. Synonyms — Lixcelsior ; Harly Hacel- 
_sior. Ears five to seven inches long, and one and three-quarters 
inches in diameter, slightly tapering, blunt at tip; 12-rowed. Kernel 
rather large, crimped and wrinkled, closely in contact. Plant five 
and a half to six and a half feet tall, bearing its ears about thirty 
inches from the ground. 
Introduced about 1878, and quite variable even now in the size 
of ear and in the regularity of the rows, which in crops from Mr. 
Potter’s seed are often too irregular to be counted. As grown by 
seedmen the tendency is to a plumper and more regularly rowed 
ear, and a kernel-less wrinkled and more compactly set. Mr. 8. M.- 
Tracy says the parents were Harly Minnesota and “ Old Asylum.” 
Mr. Potter says he exercised a careful selection, saving for seed both 
good and poor ears in order to hold to the type, in which the kernels 
are almost too sugary. In Mr. Potter’s strain the ear is often oval 
in section, from the tenderness of the kernels yielding to the press- 
ure of its weight. ; 
28. CrarK’s Otp Cotony. Ears seven to eight inches long, and 
about one and three-quarters inches in diameter, strongly tapering 
and.often rounded toward butt in upper third, fourteen to 16-rowed. 
Kernels flattish on summit, small, crimped and somewhat wrinkled, 
not in contact on flat side. Plant about six feet tall, bearing its ears 
about twenty inches from the ground. 
Introduced about 1883 or 1884, and not yet fixed, throwing very 
many ears off of type eight, ten and 12-rowed. The description is 
from ears sent from the originator, and supplemented by the data ob- 
tained from growing it in the station garden. It is entirely distinct, 
apparently, from the Old Colony of Burr, 1863. 
29. Eayprian. Synonym — Washington Market. [Ears six to 
seven inches long, and*about one and seven-eighths inches in diameter, 
slightly tapering, rounding strongly toward butt in the upper fifth ; 
~ twelve to 16rowed. Kernels large, crimped and wrinkled, shrunken 
so as not to be in contact. Plant about six feet tall, and bearing its 
ears about twenty-four inches from the ground. 
Introduced about 1878. 
30. Lanprera. Synonym — Landreth’s Sugar. Ears six and 
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