CONVEESATION V. 



EXOGENS. 



PINE YEW BEEF-WOODWILLOW NETTLE HEMP 

 MULBERRY, AND PLANE TRIBES. 



THE young larch firs in the plantation had now 

 put on their beautiful green foliage, and the 

 children were comparing their delicate colour with 

 the dark green of the hardy spruce fir, and with 

 the deep bluish-green of the Scotch fir, when 

 their father asked them how they should know 

 that these trees, so different in colour, were all of 

 one tribe. 



"Very easily, papa," said Henry; "because 

 they all have needle-shaped leaves, and they all 

 bear cones." 



"And they all have a very pleasant smell," 

 added Mary, " for that is the reason why we gather 

 fir-cones in autumn. Mamma sometimes has a few 

 of the dried cones put on the drawing-room fire, 

 where they blaze up very quickly, and scent the 

 room ; and we put some in our clothes-drawers to 



