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"The trees known as evergreens," said Miss Harson, "are not so bright and cheerful-looking as those which are deciduous, or leaf-shedding, but they have the advantage of being clothed with foliage, although of a sober hue, all the year round.
When it has been sufficiently boiled, the syrup is poured into moulds or casks to harden. The sugar with which the most pains have been taken is very light-colored, and I have seen it almost white." "Have you ever been to a sugar-camp, Miss Harson?" asked Clara, who was wishing, like Malcolm, that she could go to one herself.
"What a shame it is," exclaimed Malcolm, in great indignation, "to have our best peaches eaten by wretched little worms who might just as well eat grass and leave the peaches for us!" "Perhaps they think it a shame that they are so often shaken to the ground or washed off the trees," replied Miss Harson; "and, as to their eating grass, they evidently prefer peaches.
The lumberers, as they are called, are constantly hewing down the grand old trees for timber, white pine being the principal timber of New England and Canada." "And they float it down the rivers on rafts, don't they?" said Malcolm. "Won't you tell us about that, Miss Harson?" "Yes," was the reply.
The little girl thought she had a very funny brother and sister, and Miss Harson, too, was funny sometimes. "Have you so soon forgotten about the real insect-crickets, dear?" asked her governess, kindly. "Why, it will be months yet before we see one. Besides, I thought I told you that in some places a little bench is called a 'cricket'? Do you know, Clara, why you thought Mrs.
"That is an excellent reason," replied Miss Harson, "and the canoe birch it shall be. There is more to be said of it than of any of the others, and it also grows in greater quantities. Thick woods of it are found in Maine and New Hampshire for it loves a cold climate and in other Northern portions of the country.
"Yes; that wonderful country is beginning to supply us with English walnuts." "Are you going to tell us a story, Miss Harson?" asked Edith, hopefully. "I have no story, dear," was the reply, "but there is something here which you may like about birds stealing the nuts." Of course they would like this; for if there was to be no story, birds and stealing promised to furnish a good substitute.
"Do prunes really grow on trees, Miss Harson?" asked Edith, who was rather disposed to think that they grew in pretty boxes. "Yes, dear," was the reply; "they grow just as our plums do, only they are dried and packed in layers before they reach this country.
"And now," added Miss Harson, "reading of the numerous relations of the locust, considering that 'the acacia, not less valued for its airy foliage and elegant blossoms than for its hard and durable wood; the braziletto, logwood and rosewoods of commerce; the laburnum; the furze and the broom, both the pride of the otherwise dreary heaths of Europe; the bean, the pea, the vetch, the clover, the trefoil, the lucerne all staple articles of culture by the farmer are so many species of Leguminosae, and that the gums Arabic and Senegal, kino and various precious medicinal drugs, not to mention indigo, the most useful of all dyes, are products of other species, it will be perceived that it would be difficult to point out an order with greater claims upon the attention."
It is a very long-lived tree, as well as an evergreen; the Psalmist says, 'I am like a green olive tree in the house of God." Job xxiii. 6. "What does a wild olive tree mean, Miss Harson?" asked Clara. "It means, dear, one that has grown without being cultivated, like our wild cherry and plum trees. The wild olive is smaller than the other, and inferior to it in every way.
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