AMERICAN POP CORN.
Last year, Mr Shaw, of Easton, Pensylvania, while on a visit to Christchurch from the United States, expressed his strong opinion after a trip round the district, and a short experience of the climate, that the American pop corn, so noted for its beautifully white and singularly sweet flour, would thrive well in Canterbury. Having a few seedo with him be gave Mr T. Kaine, of JNew Brighton, between 3Q and 40. This number that gentlemen in November last sowed in a shaded paddock of peaty soil, and the whole of them struck. Some of the stalks have already reached 7ft. in height, and there is now to be seen at Mr W. Wilson's seed shop one stalk bearing four fairly grown cobs of corn. Mr Kaine hopes to have some of the corn fully matured next month, and there is overy probability, as the qualities of this $ow introduction become better known, that ?' corn cake" and " corn grits" will form not the least pleasing feature of future breakfast tables.— Lyttelton Times.
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Colonist, Volume XXII, Issue 2514, 22 February 1879, Page 5 (Supplement)
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175AMERICAN POP CORN. Colonist, Volume XXII, Issue 2514, 22 February 1879, Page 5 (Supplement)
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