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tion, flat on top, which is small, thus causing a broad, deep and tri- 
angular sulcus between the rows. The color very peculiar, orange 
yellow iu the dent, orange red in the rest of thekernel. Resembles ~ 
Blount’s Prolific very closely in shape of ear. 
*** Kernels white. Cob white. 
3. Batpwin’s Branouine, Gregory. LEarssix to eight inches long, 
and about one inch and a half in diameter, not rounded, but some- 
times compressed at but, pointed toward tip which is not filled ; eight 
to 10-rowed ; kernels broader near the center than at summit, rounded, 
forming a distinct but not broad sulcus between the rows, white on 
summit, dingy white below; cob rather large. Gregory says it 
commonly grows several stalks from one kernel, and is late. 
Resembles Blount’s Prolific quite closely in form of ear, but the 
kernel’s are dingy white below instead of bright horny white, and 
the kernel shallower, thus forming a shallower sulcus. 
4, Brount’s Protiric, Bliss, Thorburn. Ears six to eight inches 
long, and one and three-eighths to one and a half inchesin diameter. 
Ear stall rather small medium. Lar rather strongly pointed in lower 
third, to the not filled tip, not rounding at, but often compressed or 
slightly swollen at butt through extra kernels ; mostly 8-rowed. Ker- 
nels very angular in outline, rather deep, and hence a broad and deep 
sulcus between rows, which are often grouped somewhat in pairs, 
white at the summit, glossy horny white below, crease dented. Cob 
-small. Plant seven to eight feet tall, bearing its upper ears about 
fifty-four inches from the ground, often four to eight ona stalk, the 
lower ears shorter and more pointed than the upper. 
5. Prouiric of Tennessee. Synonyms — SLlount’s Prolific, 
Gregory; Improved Blount’s Prolific, Thorburn, Rural New 
Yorker. Ears seven to eight inches long, and about one and a half - 
inches in diameter. . Ear tapering a little in lower portion, not 
rounded over, but often compressed rounded at the butt, the tip not 
filled, usually 10-rowed, often 12-rowed. Kernels broadly rounded, 
broad at top, rather narrow at base, forming a distinct but shallow 
sulcus between the rows, crease dented. Plant about seven feet 
tall, and bearing its upper ears about fifty-four inches from the 
ground. Many ears form on a stalk, but the plant is too late to 
mature many of the lower ones, and scarcely the upper in this region. 
Very leafy. 
Probably the original form from which Blount’s Prolitic was de- 
rived, and toward which Improved Blount’s Prolific has been carried — 
by selection. 
6. Benton Warre. Ears ten to twelve inches long, and about 
two inches in diameter. Resembles Benton Yellow, No. 1, in every 
respect except the color, which is white near the summit of the ker- 
nel, and glossy horny white below. Like the Yellow it is almost 
invariably 8-rowed. 
This variety varies sometimes to a flesh colored form. Indeed 
the white and the yellow in Connecticut are often grown mixed in 
the crop. eRe 
