Turkie wheat
| Title |
Turkie wheate |
| Source |
enviroone.com |
| URL |
www.enviroone.com |
| Type |
Photograph |
| Origin |
Internet |
| Notes |
Corne – Pagatowr, Mayze, Guinney wheate, turkie wheate; Zea mays L; p.13 . . . called Mayze: English men call it Guinney wheate or Turkie wheate . . .; GUINEA WHEAT 1. (Bot.), a name for Indian corn. Source: ; Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913); p. 13 “a kind of graine so called by the inhabitants; the same in the West Indies is called Mayze; English men call it Guinney wheate or Turkie wheate, according to the names of the countries from whence the like hath been brought.”; Bellis hariot mentions three varieties, ripening at different rates (11 to 14 weeks). ; Jacques; Zea mays L. ‘The ears of corn found in South American tombs are of this variety. [Zea mays var. amylacea] Soft Corn Soft corn is planted in South America, Mexico, and our Southwestern States and is used in flour making.”; p.22 “”Columbus found a flint corn [Fline or Yankee corn, Zea mays var. indurate Bailey] in the west Indies which has developed from the ‘tropical flint’ and is now planted in Argentina and some European countries.; NB-VJB There are several varieties of Zea mays including Soft Corn, Sweet Corn, and Flint Corn . . . which of these, if any, was the Indian corn of the early colonial period?; |
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Turkie wheat
