CHAPTER XIII 



PLANTS AND TREES WORTH KNOWING 



It is not intended to make this a dry-as-dust 

 chapter on Botany, but to give some notes upon 

 plants and trees worth knowing that will be of 

 some service to those young people who are 

 desirous of learning the names, uses, etc., of some 

 of our British plants and trees. 



From a scientific point of view, of course, all 

 plants and trees are worth observing, from the 

 humblest weed on the rubbish heap to the tallest 

 monarch of the forest, but it is not altogether 

 from that point of view that it is proposed to 

 approach the present part of our story. 



There are several plants and trees of economic 

 value to mankind, and many of these are not 

 nearly so well known to-day as they might be, 

 for our grandfathers and great grandfathers used 

 herbs and other plants far more than we do, and 

 resorted much more to Nature's own remedies 

 to cure several of the ills that the flesh is heir to. 



There are other plants and trees worth know- 

 ing, not so much because of their economic value, 

 as for the fact that some part of them is poisonous, 

 and it is just as well for the Nature stalker — and 



the Boy Scout and camper-out in particular — 



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