Sugar-maple Beet-root. 



Leaves: Palm. Sugur-Maple. Chestnut. 



Draw on blackboard the palm-leaf 2 feet long- (one-tenth the 



full length), the maple 5 inches, and each of the others 7 



inches (full length). 



If the teacher direct, other leaves may be brought to 

 school by the pupils, who will call the names of the leaves. 



22. Another palm that grows in Egypt 

 gives us a kind of gingerbread all ready for us 

 to eat. It is called the Doum palm. 



23. Some trees in South America and Af- 

 rica are called cow-trees, because they give a 

 kind of milk. 



24. Besides the trees that furnish bread and 

 milk, there are others that yield a substance like 

 butter. Of these the African tree seems the 

 best, for the butter from it is sweet, white, and 

 firm, and will keep for a year without salting. 



25. Besides bread, milk, and butter, plants 

 yield also sugar. This we have from the sugar- 

 cane, from the maple-tree, and from the beet- 

 root. Enough is made from this latter in 

 France to supply that whole country. It is 

 just as clear and sweet as the best loaf-sugar 

 manufactured from the sugar-cane. From the 



