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fication of variations, and enables us to ascribe most of the ears of 
our crop to one or the other of the varieties figured in our report for 
1884. Where the identification is by picture and memory combined, 
we use the word ‘resemble;’ when fully identified by specimens we 
use the name of the variety only, without qualification. The num- 
ber following the name of the standard varieties is the number used 
in the descriptive part of our 1884 report. In a number of cases 
our knowledge was not sufficient to make a certain identification, 
and in the case of the pops we have omitted in general the refer- 
ences to varieties not as yet named by us. 
The plantings of our 148 different selections were on May 18 and 
19, four or five hills of a kind, in a compact plat, and so arranged 
as to secure the greatest natural admixture possible through the 
prevalence of the pollen of each variety throughout. ‘The notes on 
the crop together with the seed used are given below, and the 1884 
number is appended whereby the possible cross-fertilizations can be 
traced. 
SWEET Corn. 
No. 4.. WHITE SWEET Pop KERNELS from No. 1846 of 1884. 
Seventeen ears all white sweet, with pink, white, yellow and black 
flinty kernels of pop size. I cannot identify the ears with varieties. 
No. 8. AMBER SWEET KERNELS from Brighton Orange (12 rowed), 
No. 1805 of 1884. 
Eleven ears 10-rowed, 6 ears 13-rowed. Some ears resemble Tom 
Thumb, No. 6, with some yellow and white flint kernels. Other 
ears resemble Orange, No. 16, with a few black sweet, white and 
yellow flint kernels. Compare Nos. 55, 91, and 92 of this year. 
No. 14. STOWELL’s EVERGREEN. Sta. 1884. 
Sixteen ears, very unripe. Some dent kernels intermixed. 
No. 16. PiInK KERNELS AND Cos, Harly Marblehead. No. 1813 
of 1884. 
Fifteen ears, some on type, witha very few flint kernels; a few 
ears Amber Queen, No. 20, but many flesh-colored flint kernels. 
No. 1%. NaRRAGANSETT. Sta. 1884. 
Sixteen ears, seven on type with yellow and slate flint kernels in- 
termixed; some on type, but deep red, and deep red flint kernels ; 
some ears resembling Wyoming No. 8, in ear, but Narragansett col- 
ored kernels, and a few flint kernels. 
No. 23. GOLDEN SWEET KERNELS from 186% of 1884. 
Twenty-one ears; some Golden Eight-rowed, No. 13, with a few 
black sweet, white and golden flint kernels; some ears Black Mexi- 
can, with some amber and golden sweet, and white, olive, slate and 
black flint kernels. Compare No. 49 sweet and No. 111 flint of this 
year. 
No. 28. WHITE SWEET Pop, from No. 1844 of 1884. 
Nineteen ears; some ears resemble Darling’s Early, No. 9, with a 
