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black, amber and golden sweet kernels; some ears resemble Chinese: 
Golden, No. 39, but the color lighter, and some amber sweet and 
purple flint kernels; one lot resembles, but are not, Early Dutton, 
No. 31, with some amber and black sweet kernels. Compare No. 
141 sweet of this year. 
No. 41. Rurau ''HOROUGHBRED, white kernels. No. 1860 of 1884. 
Twenty-one ears. Some ears Rhode Island White Cap, No. 15, of 
perfect type, and with a few yellow flint kernels; some ears resemble 
Benton Dent, and are scarcely ripe; some ears on type, but. very un- 
ripe. No off kernels except yellow and white flint on the flint ears, 
and dent on dent ears. 
No. 42. RuopE IsLanD WHITE Cap. No. 1859 of 1884. 
Seventeen ears, all on type; a few discolored flint kernels. 
No. 46. RED BLAZED, Ferry. 
Sixteen ears, mostly on type with some few dark purple flint ker- 
nels; afew ears resembling Long Yellow, No. 23, with a few blackish 
flint kernels. 
No. 5%. YeLtow Very Lone Frrnt kernels from Benton Dent.. 
No. 1874 of 1884. 
Seventeen ears;some Benton Dent, No. 1, precisely on type, some: 
few slate dent kernels; some ears Waushakum, No. 5, precisely on 
type, a very few discolored flint kernels; some ears Hight-rowed 
Brown, No. 12, precisely, and no off kernels; some ears resemble Or- 
ange Flint, No. 6, and a number of olive, speckled, whitish, ete., 
flint kernels. Compare No. 69 dent of this year. 
No. 61. Buack Frint KERNELS from 1804 of 1884. 
Twenty-one ears; mostly Black Mexican Sweet, No. 14, witha few 
black flint kernels; a few ears 10-rowed, and resembling Black Sugar,. 
No. 25, with black and white sweet and flint kernels intermixed. 
Compare Nos. 84 and 137 sweet of this year. 
No. 63. JAPANESE STRIPED. No. 1919 of 1884. 
All ears appear on type, but too unripe for satisfactory study.. 
Bloomed Aug. 31, silked Sept. 5. 
No. 71. YELLOWISH FLINT KERNELS from 1814 of 1884. 
Twenty-four ears; some ears resembling Genesee Sweet, No. 17, a. 
few black sweet, yellow and white flint kernels ; one red ear coarse: 
New England Pop, with red sweet kernels intermixed; some ears. 
coarse New England Pop type, with some black flint and many 
white sweet kernels. Compare Nos. 40 and 90 sweet of this year.. 
No. 74 AFRICAN Maize, EK. 1. No. 1911 of 1884. 
Twelve ears; all Chinese Golden, No. 39, some few black and. 
speckled flint kernels; no sign of a spine to the kernel as in the seed. 
used. | 
No. 82. CHOCOLATE FLINT KERNELSfrom No. 1901 of 1884. 
Nineteen ears, one six-rowed, the balance 8-rowed. ars on type: 
of Mandan, but the kernels mostly flint, yet a few soft and sweet. 
kernels are noted. The chocolate color prevailing, but white, yel- 
low, brown, black, etc., occur. 
