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tened by a bur. The bur has four lobes and they 

 are on two opposite sides. They are covered with 

 little prickles on the outside, but on the inside 

 they are very smooth. The beechnuts themselves 

 are very smooth and there are generally two nuts tc 

 each bur. They are triangular, having three sharp 

 sides and coming to a very sharp point. The nuts 

 are very good to eat, and in France they press great 

 quantities of them for the oil, which is good for 

 flavoring different articles of food. The stem of the 

 bur is soft and covered with very fine hairs like the 

 edge of the leaf. The nuts are very small, being 

 only about half an inch long, and each one of the 

 three sides are about the same length. They are 

 a little larger on some other kinds of beech. The 

 stem of the bur is only about one-third of an inch 

 long and about one-eighth of an inch thick. When 

 the nuts are in the bur the two flat sides come 

 together." 



The Oaks. 



" The Oaks are not a very graceful class of trees, 

 but are very majestic and strong. They are distin- 

 guished for their great rough bark, the beauty of the 

 leaves, for growing very tall and large, and also for 

 growing very old. Some of them have been found 

 one thousand years old. They are found in the 



