Tall Alkekengi.
Tall Ground Cherry. Tall Strawberry Tomato. Physalis pubescens.
Stem about four feet high, erect and branching; leaves oval, somewhat triangular, soft and velvety; flowers yellow, spotted with deep purple; fruit yellow, of the size of the Common Yellow Alkekengi, enclosed in an angular, inflated calyx, and scarcely distinguishable from the last named.
It is grown from seeds, which are sown like those of the Tomato. It is later, and much less prolific, than the species first described.
CORN.
Zea mays.
Garden and Table Varieties.—
Adams's Early White.
A distinct and well-marked table variety. Ears seven to eight inches in length, two inches in diameter, twelve or fourteen rowed, and rather abruptly contracted at the tips; kernel white, rounded, somewhat deeper than broad, and indented at the exterior end, which is whiter and less transparent than the interior or opposite extremity. The depth and solidity of the kernel give great comparative weight to the ear; and, as the cob is of small size, the proportion of product is unusually large.