Stowell’s Evergreen
(Sweet) A favoured white sweet corn variety of the 1800s, sold as early as 1856.
“Stowell’s Evergreen is one of the oldest and most popular varieties of sweet corn in existence. The first listing of the variety is not known, but the name Stowell’s Evergreen was used, among others, in the catalogs of J. M. Thornurn & Co., 1856; Robert Buist, 1859; Hovey & Co., 1859; and R. H. Allen & Co., 1860. In some of the early catalogs the name Evergreen Sweet was used and lacking other evidence must be considered the same as Stowell’s.” (Pg 65 and 66, ‘The Vegetables of New York Part III: Sweet Corn’, U.P. Hendrick, 1937)
“[…] Prof. Mapes of Newark, New Jersey, in the Working Farmer of 1850, gives the history as follows “This corn is a hybrid between Menomony soft corn and the nother Sugar corn and was first grown by Mr. Nathan Stowell of Burlington, N. J. We purchased from Mr. S. a number of ears dried for seed and he presented us with a few ears surrounded by the husks, grown the previous summer, the inner leaves of the husks of which, and the corn and cob, were in as green a state as when pulled from the previous August, Near the close of the late fair of the American Institute, I presented the managers with the two ears pulled in August 1849, and twelve ears pulled in August 1850. They were boiled nad served up together and appeared to be alike, and equal to corn fresh from the garden.”” (Pg 66, ‘The Vegetables of New York Part III: Sweet Corn’, U.P. Hendrick, 1937)
Resources
 Pg 65, The Vegetables of New York Part III: Sweet Corn, Hedrick, U.P., 1937 |  Pg 66, The Vegetables of New York Part III: Sweet Corn, Hedrick, U.P.,1937 |