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No. 143. Porrrr’s Excetsior. No. 1831 of 1884. 
Twenty-six ears on type, with some flint kernels, deeper than 
broad, and white and yellow in color. 
No. 145. WurirE Sweer KERNELS from 1539 of 1884. 
Seven red sweet ears, eight white sweet ears; all of the unhusked 
Pod corn type, the majority of the kernels sweet, the others dent. 
‘Compare No. 32 dent of this year. 
No. 147. Sconaris. D.Bouck. 
Sixteen ears; the most of these too unripe for study, but a few 
which resemble Darling’s Early, No. 9, have some white yellow and 
blackish flint kernels. 
No. 148. Catirornia. D.Bouck. 
Nine ears; too unripe for study. 
FLINT Corn. 
"No. 6. WAUSHAKUM. ‘Sta. 1884. 
Twenty-three ears, allon type, a very few discolored flint kernels. 
No. 7. FReNcH YELLOW Six WEEks, Vaughan. 
Two ears on Quarantino, and no off kernels; fourteen ears on 
‘type, with a very few brown flint kernels. 
‘No. 10. Compton’s Earuy. No. 1850 of 1884. 
Sixteen ears; a few Canada 12-rowed, No. 29, with some white 
‘sweet and white flint kernels; other ears on type, witha few blackish 
flint kernels. 
No. 19. Ere¢Ht-RowEep WHITE, Thorb. Sta. 1884. 
Twenty-three ears, on type, some few yellow and blue fiint ker- 
nels. 
No. 25. New ENGLAND 8-Rowep. No. 1866 of 1884. 
Twenty-two ears 8-rowed, 1 ear 12-rowed. Some ears on type; 
some ears Long Yellow, No. 23; some ears Canada 12-rowed, with 
many amber and black sweet, and white and black flint kernels. 
Compare No. 89 of this year. 
No. 2%. Maize From Arica, A. No. ‘1910 of 1884. 
Twenty-three ears; three ears were Pod, and resembled the podded 
ears of 1883 description. Some ears resembled Chinese Golden, No. 
39, and the type of the seed planted; some ears resembling African 
H. 3 dent, No. 37, but yellow kernels instead of white, and some 
brown dent kernels; one ear was a 12-rowed flint, which I cannot 
place; one red ear, quite unripe, but resembling African Dent E. 3, 
INO. 01. 
No. 31. CHaMPION WHITE PEARL, Greg. 
Highteen ears. Too unripe for study; at edible maturity Sept. 16. 
No. 39. Waite FLiInt KERNELS from No. 1818 of 1884. 
_ Twenty-three ears; one ear resembles Egyptian Rice Pop, all white 
kerneled; some ears resemble Canada, No. 2, with some black flint, 
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