See quot. 1817.
1812. The garrison was left with only green corn to subsist on.—Mass. Spy, Oct. 7.
1817. Sweet corn, is corn gathered before it is ripe, and dried in the sun: it is called by the Americans green corn, or corn in the milk.—John Bradbury, ‘Travels,’ p. 114.
1822. On the 5th inst., a gentleman [of Northampton, Mass.] had green corn upon his table, in about two months from the time it was planted.—Mass. Spy, July 17.
1824. We have had green Corn [in Norfolk, Va.] for a fortnight fast.—Id., Aug. 11. (Correspondence.)
1846. [He] was dispatched, in the month of May, with a bushel bag, to get green corn.—Yale Lit. Mag., xi. 171 (Feb.). (Italics in the original.)
1858. His mother, like an old fool, goes and sets a dish of green corn on the table; and so, Josh, who had n’t seen nuthin’ fresh for more’n ninety days, falls right to, and eats the hull of it, which was eighteen ears in all.—Knick. Mag., li. 7 (Jan.).
