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Show Manna Still Falls And in Our Own Country Ey John T. TimmoTi3, The Distinguished American Horticulturist. IT will probably be a surprising fact, to many to learn that manna tho. same manna, of Holy writfalls in certain parts of the United States as well as In the Far East. Manna, has fallen In our own country on several occasions. occa-sions. During the dry Hummer season, when there has hecn a scarcity of honey bea ring flowers, in the fields and forests, and it seemed as if bees would not be able to find sufficient honey lo store away for Winter consumption, con-sumption, honey in large (iiant.itle:i has been deposited like a dew on the foliage of trees In the forest, as well fa.i upon the leaves of fruit trees In towns nntl villages. This phenomenon has been oieerverl throughout the mountain region of the KaMern Slates and throughout, the Ohio Valley, and the early nciilers told or n heavy fall ol what ihey ealp-d "honey dew" in a season when food slufi,-, were m-ec, j,ml ihn sweet wa.) collected and u;;cd aa u food by many. The latest manifestation of this depo-r.i of honey dew" or manna was observed throughout Ohio and West Virginia Vir-ginia in tho Summer or 1!)H. In some places tho deposit de-posit was very heavy, and it was found on the follnge of plants nn well as trees. One Unusual thing about If was that II never camo when there was a dew. Instead of Hie folingo being covered wllh moisture everything was dry except where Ihe henev-like Hubslanre wnj found. When the hot. sun dried tho stleHy coating on the leaves it became a dull while color, but while If was moist, it was I ra.nsp.il ent. ' About, twenty years ago, whor Ibis food was found on the leaves of trees it. was declared by some to bo the result of Inseet.s working on Ihe leaves, causing a serre lion to be exuded from the foliage, and others advanced ' the theory If was n seerel Ion from the Insects. Hut rare-fill rare-fill I'.tucly of Ihe phenomenon shows thai, both theories are wrong. If hi true, miinna. Where II actually couicu 'rem no yuo haa been able, to dclcrmlu- It. is not always pleasant lo tho taste, but on some occasions It. has been found unite palateable. and thos who have fully tested it declare It contains nothing that ir, Injtuiiinn to a person in nny way; and that Is more than can always ho said of ordinary honey collected from certain flowers. The Knslcrn iiuinna. is thus described by a traveler; "It. is somewhat granular in substance, and in color Is of a yellowish white. When collected in tho early morning morn-ing it Is hard to the touch. It Is put. In jars and exposed to Ihe rays of tho sun, when It melts and forms n suli-stanee suli-stanee not unllUe ebeese In appeal mice slid consist oncy. In tasto If Is sweet like honev. Manna also falls in the neighborhood of ltngilad, mid I taste,! it there. I should not like to ll e on It, but. It is mil rll ions and not un-palntonblo. un-palntonblo. The nianna. which falls still further soulh in the great Arabian desert la said tn be better than that which In fiuind near HiikiIhiI." There Is little difference between tho Ohio umuuft nml tills ol tho l'nr limit, r |