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The offering in Lev. 2:14, was of u green ears of corn 

 dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears." 



The writer has been interested, during the past sum- 

 mer, in watching the growth of several hills of corn in 

 the garden of Mr. John H. B. Orover, in Whiting street, 

 Lynn. The stalks were very similar to those of the com- 

 mon field corn, raised by Essex County farmers, with the 

 exception that a white stripe was shown in the centre of 

 each leaf or lance. But the principal peculiarity was in 

 the fact that no ear appeared, but the kernels grew upon 

 the (lower or tassel, forming a bunch on the top of each 

 stalk, which yielded half a pint or more of hard white 

 corn, about the size of pop-corn, and the kernels being of 

 the same shape as that variety. The seed from which 

 this corn grew was procured by a gentleman making a 

 tour in the East. While in Egypt, a mummy was ex- 

 humed, and a quantity of corn was found in the coffin. 

 The gentleman, finding that the corn was apparently in 

 good condition, thought that perhaps it might germinate, 

 and sent some of it to a friend in California, who, in turn 

 sent a few kernels to a farmer by the name of Cisson, in 

 New Jersey. Both the gentlemen who received the corn 

 planted it, and were surprised, that the kernels grew 

 where the tassel forms on our native* corn. It is believed 

 that the mummy from which this corn was taken had 

 been buried nearly four thousand years, and that it re- 

 tained the power to germinate is truly wonderful. The 

 corn raised this year, by Mr. Grover, was the second 

 year's product of the seed sent from Eg} T pt. The mum- 

 my was found twenty feet below the surface, the depth 

 being accounted for, perhaps, by the drift of sand during 

 the centuries. The facts as here related, concerning the 

 finding of the seed and its history, were received directly 

 from Mr. Cisson, and it seems that there can be no doubt 

 of the correctness of the statements. 



There is, undoubtedly, wheat now in the United States 

 which sprang from seed taken from mummies which had 



