NO FO O D.
the world. Can you tel
its name?
Every one has seen it growing. It is tobacco.
Do you think the tobacco plant is as useful as the
cotton and flax plants?
Everybody eats sugar. Did you ever see a table set for
supper without a sugar bowl?
The sugar in common use in this country is made
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chiefly from sugar-cane. The sugar-cane is a tal plant
which looks much like Indian corn when growing. It is
caled the sugar-cane because it is filed with the sweet
juice that is made into the sugar.
When the stalks are cut they are taken to a sugar mil.
Here they pass between great rolers which press out
the juice. The liquid is then boiled until it turns to sugar.
Much sugar is made from the sap of the sugar-maple
tree. In the early spring the sap begins to rise. A hole is
bored in the tree and a tube inserted, through which the
sap passes to a bucket or other vessel placed to
receive it. The sap is boiled in large kettles and
becomes syrup. More boiling turns the syrup into
sugar.
Write what you have learned of cotton and linen.
SUGAR-CANE IS A TALL PLANT.
LESSON XXXIII.
FOREST TREES.
In your walks what things please you the most? Is it not the trees? Trees are very useful to us, and we ought to be very grateful for them.
Name some trees along the streets and in the parks. Are they useful to us, especialy on a hot day? Why? Then what kind of trees do we cal them? (Shade.) Which of these are the first to put on their green dresses in the spring? Which are the brightest in autumn?
Name some trees that grow in the woods.
Name a tree whose wood is dark. A tree whose wood
is light. A tree whose wood is hard. A tree whose
wood is soft.
Name some trees that are valued for the color and
hardness, or the beautiful grain, of their wood.
What kind of wood are the desks made of? The
teacher's table?
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What kinds of wood are used in making chairs?
tables? pianos? windows? floors?
If we wish to make a carriage, omnibus, cart, or
wagon, which wood should we use? Why?
From which trees do we get lumber for building?
Can you name a wood which is very hard and tough,
and is used in building ships?
What do we cal many trees together, like these?
A SHADY STREET.
What is Arbor Day? Why need we plant trees?
We plant tie spire that out-
towers the crag,
We plant the staff for our
country's flag,
We plant the shade, from the
hot sun free--
We plant al these when we
plant the tree.
What do we plant when we
plant the tree?
We plant the houses for you
and me.
We plant the rafters, the
shingles, the floors,
We plant the studding, the laths,
the doors,
The beams and siding, al parts
that be--
We plant the house when we
plant the tree.
What do we plant when we
plant the tree?
A thousand things that we daily