. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. only inthe colour of theskin of the grain :both have verylarge and hand-some ears { There is thelarge yellow flint,the large whiteflint, the sweetcorn, the pearlcorn, the maizequarantine, ripen-ing in forty days,and the Egyptianor chicken corn,Mais a poulet, le -plus petit etle plusprtcoce, of Yil-morins is also whatis called
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. only inthe colour of theskin of the grain :both have verylarge and hand-some ears { There is thelarge yellow flint,the large whiteflint, the sweetcorn, the pearlcorn, the maizequarantine, ripen-ing in forty days,and the Egyptianor chicken corn,Mais a poulet, le -plus petit etle plusprtcoce, of Yil-morins is also whatis called Cobbettscorn {fig. 731.),which seems to benothingmorethanthe Mais quaran-taine. The two last varieties have small handsome cars {figs. 73C. and733.), and can hardly be distinguished from eachother. All these sorts have been tried together inthe same field, and the Egyptian or chicken cornfound decidedlv the most early, and the Maizequarantaine, forty davscorn, or Cobbetts com, nextthese two sorts, therefore, alone deserve culturein this country. The Zea Curagiia, the Valparaisocorn, is a distinct species, to which a sort ofreligious reputation is attached, on account of thegrains, when roasted, splitting regularly into theform of a
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