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Cogent another name for Country Gentleman corn?

11 years ago

In the attached link, scroll to the bottom and you see they are offering a corn called Early Cogent. Is this one and the same as the good old OP Country Gentleman shoepeg corn, or has Syngenta developed a new strain?

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RpR_
11 years ago
Do not know why the put Early on there but CO-untry GENT-leman, I would say absolutely.
farmerdill
11 years ago
A hybrid version of Country Gentleman.
RpR_
11 years ago
Farmer dill is correct, here is a site with some hybrid history.

http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wehner/vegcult/sweetcornal.html

http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wehner/vegcult/sweetcornmz.html

They are not the same page.

This post was edited by RpR_ on Sat, Dec 15, 12 at 13:31

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