ON TREES AND BIRDS. 



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trees, and you must remember that, if your tree is un- 

 healthy, the fruit will be imperfect and, perhaps, un- 

 wholesome. When you go to the store or market 

 house and see scabby and gnarly fruit, you may 

 make up your mind that there is some trouble with 

 the trees from which it came. The story of creation 

 tells us that the Lord put man in the garden of Eden 

 "to dress it and to keep it." Men have destroyed 

 nearly all of the beautiful forests of America, and 

 you children must learn how to get new and healthy 

 trees. 



