NATURE STUDY MADE EASY 



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LESSON XXVII 



EVERGREEN TREES 



Evergreen trees! That is a pleasing 

 name the tree that is ever green. It 

 does not change its color or loosen its 

 leaves and bare itself in the autumn 

 winds. No, it bravely resists the winds. 

 It tells its pretty green leaves to hold on 

 tightly. It gathers them in little bunches, 

 so that one helps the other to present a 

 brave front, and then, when all the forest 

 trees and fruit trees and shade trees are 

 bare, the evergreen tree is covered with 

 leaves. 



Why do the leaves remain green? 

 Why do they cling so tightly to the old 

 mother tree? It is one of Mother Nature's beautiful laws that, 

 when her summer children of the forests fall asleep, her winter 

 children shall keep wide awake and full of life. 



Back of the bark of these trees, the pines and the firs, there 

 are pipes and reservoirs of sticky turpentine juice. Each fir has 

 its own way of making its juice. This juice makes the resin and 

 the turpentine and the balsam we use. 



Have you ever seen a grate fire piled with pine logs? How it 



