cept, perhaps, at the extreme northern boundary, where the Canada
Yellow would probably succeed better.

It often occurs with a profuse intermixture of red, sometimes streaked
and spotted, sometimes copper-red, like the King Philip, and
occasionally of a rich, bright, clear blood-red. As the presence of this
color impairs its value for marketing, and particularly for mealing,
more care should be exercised in the selection of ears for seed; and
this, continued for a few seasons, will restore it to the clear yellow
of the Dutton or Early Canada.

Many local sub-varieties occur, the result of selection and cultivation,
differing in the size and form of the ear; size, form, and color of the
kernel; and also in the season of maturity. The Dutton, Early Canada,
King Philip, and numerous other less important sorts, are but improved
forms of the New-England Eight-rowed.

PARKER.

A variety remarkable for the extraordinary size of the ears, which, if
well grown, often measure thirteen or fourteen inches in length: they
are comparatively slender, and uniformly eight-rowed. Cob white and
slim; kernels bright-yellow, rounded, broader than deep.

Productive, but some days later than the Common New-England Eight-rowed.

WHITE HORSE-TOOTH.

Southern White.

Stalk twelve feet or more in height, with large, luxuriant foliage; ears
single, often in pairs, short and very thick, sixteen to twenty-two
rowed; kernel remarkably large, milk-white, wedge-formed, indented at
the outer end; cob red.

YELLOW HORSE-TOOTH.

Southern Yellow.

Plant similar to that of the White Horse-tooth; kernel very large,
bright-yellow, indented; cob red.

Extensively cultivated throughout the Southern States, but not adapted
to the climate of the Middle or Northern.

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EGG-PLANT.

Solanum melongena.

The Egg-plant is a native of Africa, and is also indigenous to Tropical
America. It is a tender annual, with an erect, branching stem, and
oblong, bluish-green, powdered leaves. The flowers are one-petaled,
purple, and produced on short stems in the axils of the branches; the
fruit is often somewhat oblong, but exceedingly variable in form, size,
and color; the seeds are small, yellowish, reniform, flattened, and
retain their germinative properties seven years.

_Soil._--The Egg-plant will thrive well in any good garden soil, but
should have the benefit of a sheltered situation.

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