THE CORN-FIELD. 



and bad wheat, are said to have borne seven ears. 

 It is not the number, therefore, which is signi- 

 ficant of the productiveness ; the fact that the first 



EGYPTIAN WHEAT.' 



stalk bare seven ears was not at all emblematical 

 of the abundance of the coming season, otherwise 

 the thin ears, being also seven in number, would 



* Grown at St. Mark's College, Chelsea, 1842. 



