. The New England magazine . it to Spain. There is noevidence that it was known in Europebefore that event. No previous writermentions it. It is not represented inany antique inscription, sculpture orpainting. No author who travelled inAsia before the discovery of America, noHebrew, no Greek, no Roman writermakes mention of a grain that could bemaize. The zea of the Greeks, which isnow adopted as the generic name of ourplant, was not maize, but the spelt, Triti-ciim Spelta, — Linn.^ In 1608, the colonists at James Riverraised a large crop of the, to them, newcereal. In 1621, the pilgrims at Pl
. The New England magazine . it to Spain. There is noevidence that it was known in Europebefore that event. No previous writermentions it. It is not represented inany antique inscription, sculpture orpainting. No author who travelled inAsia before the discovery of America, noHebrew, no Greek, no Roman writermakes mention of a grain that could bemaize. The zea of the Greeks, which isnow adopted as the generic name of ourplant, was not maize, but the spelt, Triti-ciim Spelta, — Linn.^ In 1608, the colonists at James Riverraised a large crop of the, to them, newcereal. In 1621, the pilgrims at Plymouthreceived it from the Indians and planted 1 The facts used in this paper have been gathered fromthe American Encyclopaedia, Chambers Encyclopaedia, apaper in the Historical Transaction of the Illinois StateAgricultural Society, Vol. 2, 1856-7, entitled HistoricalResearches upon the Cultivated Grains and Fruits in theState of Illinois, by Frederic Brundel, M. D., and a bookcalled Children of the Sun, by Wm. E. 68 THE INDIAN CORN AS OUR NATIONAL PLANT. it at once, and but for this friendly grainthey might have perished in their firstyear on that northern coast. It is, withgame, the grand subsistence of the NorthAmerican Indians wherever they grows in every part of the UnitedStates, and in Canada, adapting itself toall varieties of soil and climate, thus This grain was probably sorghum ormillet, which was no dOubt of orientalorigin, but was not maize. After Colum-bus introduced maize into Spain, it rap-idly spread over that kingdom and intoItaly and Turkey and other southerncountries of Europe; also into Egypt,Asia and China. Such is its history,
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