ISSUE 84, SOUTHERN LANDRACE & HEIRLOOM CORN, Part 8: Country Gentleman Shoepeg Corn

Country Gentlemen Shoepeg Corn

This famous sweet corn with irregular ears of deep white kernels was generally reckoned the finest form a shoepeg corn at the end of the 19th century. Created by breeders in New Jersey by crossing a southern white shoepeg landrace (which impart the multitude of rows and the squarish deep kernel shape) and a white sweet c…