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**** Kernels. white. Cob red. | 
7. Lone Istanp Wuirr, Thorburn. Lars eight to nine inches 
long, and one and three-quarters inches in diameter. Kar rounding 
to a not well filled tip; eight and 10-rowed. Kernels large, broad, 
thick, white above, horny white below, creased dented. Cob large. 
Piant about seven feet tall. ; 
There seems to be a flesh-colored, and a yellow form of this 
variety, the seed of which is very impure, growing many 12-rowed 
ears Which seem to belong to Race B. | 
Racze B. Ear stalk large, not cupped; ear tapering. Kernel as 
broad as deep. 
* Kernels, white. Cob, white. 
8. Caraacua, Vilmorin. Kars six to seven inches long, and about 
one and one-half inches in diameter. Ear compressed, rounded at 
butt, bluntly rounded at tip, which is bare and projects; 12-rowed. - 
Kernel largish, rounded, creased dented, white. Plant twelve to 
fourteen feet tall, leafy, bearing its ears very high up. Season late. 
** Kernels, white. Cob, red. ; 
9. Lone Istanp Twetve-Rowep. Lars nine to ten inches long, 
and about two inches in diameter. Lar slightly tapering, pointed 
rounded at tip, which is filled, 12-rowed. Kernels large, rounded on 
summit, white above, orange-yellow below, long dimpled, quite cub- 
ical, rounded on the corners so that the sulcus is pronounced, but 
shallow. Cob, large; plant about seven feet tall. 
Race ©. Ear-stalk, small to medium, cupped. Ear more or less 
tapering, often strongly. Kernels deeper than broad. 
{| Kernel, yellow. 
| Cob, white. 
* A sulcus between rows. 
10. Wricur Corn. From Vaughan. - Ears eight to nine inches 
long, about two and one-fourth inches in diameter. Ear-stalk rather 
large, shallow cupped. lar tapering, quite strongly in lower half, 
rounded but little at butt, pointed rounding at tip, which is uncoy- 
ered ; fourteen to 16-rowed. Kernels large, very deep, strongly 
rounded in upper half, forming a quite broad and deep sulcus be- 
tween rows, bright orange-yellow above, orange below, giving a very 
golden appearance to the ear. The kernel long dimple dented, often 
pinched, the dent disappearing in kernels near tip. : 
- || Cob, red. 
* A sulcus between rows. 
11. Wisconsin YreLtow, Vaughan. Synonym — Siaty Day Dent, 
Thorburn. Ears six to seven inches long, and one and three-fourths to 
one and seven-eighths inchesin diameter. Ears tapering distinctly, 
rounding at butt and at the tip evenly, tip well filled; mostly 
18-rowed. Kernels a little polygonal, showing a narrow suleus 
between the rows, light orange-yellow above, orange below, dimple 
dented, often ragged dented, small but rather deep. The suleus 
often not distinctly defined. 
-12, Prive or tHe Norts. Synonyms — Sibley’s Pride of the 

