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Wood Fruits Vegetables. 



CHAPTER XII. 



TREES AND PLANTS, AND THEIR USES. 



i. Trees and other 

 plants are very useful to 

 us, and we ought to be 

 very grateful for them. 

 We eat them, we wear 

 them, we walk on them, 

 we sit on them, we sleep 

 on them, and are shel- 

 tered by them all day 

 and all night. Our shirts 

 and collars of muslin and 

 of linen are given us 

 by the cotton-plant and 

 the flax. We sit down 

 on chairs of oak or maple, or some other wood, 

 which rest on a wooden floor, on which we 

 walk. For our dinner-table the potato-plant 

 has sent us its roots, or rather tubers ; the wheat 

 or rye gives us our bread ; the tomato, the 

 carrot, the turnip, the squash, the egg-plant, and 

 a host of others all help to supply us with food f 

 while apples, peaches, pears, grapes, and other 

 delicious fruits are held out to us by many trees, 

 bushes, and vines. 



2. If we wish to build a carriage, omnibus, 

 cart, wagon, car, or railroad, the oak, the ash, the 



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An Apple-Tree. 



