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In Maine it is called plum-granate, probably from its red color," "I know what's coming next," said Clara "cherries; because all the rest have been used up. And then we're to have the story." "But they're all interesting," replied Malcolm, gallantly, "because Miss Harson makes them so."
It grows in sandy places near the salt water; it is abundant in North Africa and Syria, and is considered quite good to eat; but neither plant nor fruit bears any resemblance to our pear trees: it is a cactus." "Won't you have a story for us this evening, Miss Harson?" asked Edith, rather wistfully. "Perhaps so, dear I have been thinking of it but it will not be about pear trees."
"Just like our Indians' birch-bark canoes," said Malcolm, who was reading about the North American Indians. "But isn't it strange, Miss Harson, that the Indians and the Britons didn't get drowned going out in such little light boats?" "Their very lightness buoyed them up upon the waves," was the reply; "but it does seem wonderful that they could bear the weight of men.
Turn to the ninety-second psalm, Clara, and read the twelfth verse." "'The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." "In the thirty-first chapter of Ezekiel," continued Miss Harson, "it is written, 'Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
"There is a great deal to be learned about trees," said Miss Harson, when all were comfortably seated in the pleasant schoolroom; "and, besides the natural history of their species, some old trees have wonderful stories connected with them, while many in tropical countries are so wonderful in themselves that they do not need stories to make them interesting.
"If you had always been accustomed to having olives, as the Italians are," replied Miss Harson, "you would think them very nice. I do not suppose that their children ever think how much more inviting are the olives that are kept for sale. Olives intended for exportation are gathered while still green, usually in the month of October.
"Our American oaks," said Miss Harson, "are very handsome in autumn because of their brilliant foliage; the scarlet oak, which turns to a deep crimson and keeps its leaves longer than any of the other forest trees, is the most showy of the species. But we have no cork oaks, and no oaks that we know to be a thousand years old.
"We shall find a great deal about the fir tree," said Miss Harson, "as it is very hardy and rugged, and as common in all Northern regions as the white birch quite as useful, too, as we shall soon see.
Why, you would soon make an apple-famine in most places. Three apples a day must be your allowance for the present; and if at any time we go to live in an orchard, you may have six." "Why, we have only one," exclaimed little Edith, "and we don't want any more. Do we, Clara?" "If you don't want 'em," said Malcolm, "there's no sense in eating 'em. But I'll remember, Miss Harson.
"Miss Harson," said Clara, "when people talk about weeping willows, what do they mean? Do the trees really cry? I sometimes read about 'em in stories, and I never knew what they did." "They cry dreadfully," said Malcolm, "when it rains." "But only as you do when you are out in it," replied his governess "by having the water drip from your clothes.
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