The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 73
hat I call afine ear, and the produceis a quart of clear corn;therefore the 1156 goodears produce 2 bushels andhalf a peck for 3^ rods ofground, or 102 bushels peracre. The defective ears,being only half ripe or verysmall, I do not include inmy calculation. Mr. Cobbett having seenmy crop just… … 15 in point figured one of the lat-ter {fig. 17.), sent uslast year (Vol. V.p. 211.) by Messrs.Thorburn of NewYork, to the samescale as the ear of Mr.Greigs plant, {fig.IS. o) We have alsogiven a figure (fig. ,14.), to the same scale jgsPllias fig. 13. of the ave-rage of a row of plantsraised in…