28 THE NEW METHOD 



All through the bark each color shades off into the 

 next color. 



" The hemlock tree has the smallest leaf I ever saw 

 on any tree. It is only a third of an inch long, and 

 the sixteenth of an inch wide. So it takes 48 leaves 

 to cover a square inch. They grow alternately all 

 around the stem. The shape is linear and it has a 

 round base and apex. The leaf is flat and straight. 

 The upper side is dark green and glossy. The under 

 side has several white lines with parallel green stripes 

 between them. Although the tree is an evergreen, 

 the leaves stay on only about three years, and new 

 leaves come on every year as the twigs grow out 

 longer. 



11 The seeds are brown on one side and gray on the 

 other. The length is the sixteenth of an inch, and 

 half as wide. Each seed has a yellow wing about 

 the shape of that of a house fly, and the same size. 

 The cone is an inch long and half as wide. There 

 are about thirty scales on one cone, and two seeds to 

 a scale.", John. 



The Sun. 



" About two and a half years ago, the first day we 

 ever went to school, we learned some very interesting 

 things about the sun. The sun has lighted up the 

 sky and landscape beautifully every day since, and it 



