Cornell Study Clubs 1183 



Cornell Reading-Course for the Farm Home. Preservation of food (in 



preparation) 

 From University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



Goldthwaite, N. E. Principles of jelly-making. Vol. VIII, No. 7 

 From North Carolina Department of Agriculttire, Raleigh, N. C. 



Shaw, S. B . The home canning of fruits and vegetables. Vol. XXXI, 



No. 5 _ 



From University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Wis. 



Adams, Mrs. L. H., and Sandsten, E. P. Practical directions for 



preserving native fruits and vegetables. Bulletin 136 

 The perfect art of canning and preserving. From Butterick Publishing 



Company, New York 



Trees in Their Relation to Mankind 

 EHzabeth H. Spalding 



The friendliness of trees 



1 Man's instinctive choice of them as a refuge 



a In storms 

 b From heat 



2 Their power to comfort. See 



a Lowell's " The birch-tree " 



b George Macdonald's " David Elginbrod " 



c Sidney Lanier's " The marshes of Glynn " 



" The ballad of the trees and the master " 

 The gifts of trees 



1 A list of practical benefits 



a Banana, date palm, breadfruit, cocoanut palm, etc. 

 b Fans, cloth, rubber, etc. 



2 The tributes of poets to the generosity of trees; for example, Hiawa- 



tha's building of his canoe 

 Trees in history and in literature 



1 The stories of Absalom, King Charles, the Charter Oak, etc. 



2 George Macdonald's " Phantastes " 

 Shakespeare's " As you like it," etc, 



3 Trees in the Bible 



Conclusion: " And he shall be as a tree planted by the river of life " 



