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Zea Mays by Herbert M. Prouty, 1886
Zea Mays by Herbert M. Prouty, 1886, Page 7
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5 The varieties of corn are said to number over three hundred, exhibiting every grade of size, color and shape, between the shrubby seed that grows on the shores of Lake Superior to the gigantic stalk of the Missouri valley; the tiny ears with flat, close, clinging grain of Canada; the brilliant rounded little pearl, or the bright red grains and white cob of the eight-rowed [haematic?], to the swelling ears of the large white and yellow corn of the South. There are about [underlined] eleven [/underlined] principal varieties cultivated in the U.S. which may be distinguished by the
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5 The varieties of corn are said to number over three hundred, exhibiting every grade of size, color and shape, between the shrubby seed that grows on the shores of Lake Superior to the gigantic stalk of the Missouri valley; the tiny ears with flat, close, clinging grain of Canada; the brilliant rounded little pearl, or the bright red grains and white cob of the eight-rowed [haematic?], to the swelling ears of the large white and yellow corn of the South. There are about [underlined] eleven [/underlined] principal varieties cultivated in the U.S. which may be distinguished by the
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