NOTES. 



NOTE #. Travellers, who have visited Mount Lebanon, 

 state that, Cedar-trees are still growing there, which some 

 suppose to be coeval with those used in building the Temple of 

 Solomon. -And there are some trees of the Adonza degitata, 

 growing in Senegal, whose ages are estimated at 5000 years. 

 The trunks of these trees measure more than 30 feet in dia- 

 meter! Some Oak-trees in this country are from 800 to 1000 

 years old. And some Yew-trees can, on good authority, be 

 dated 2000 years old ! Though the Patrus and most trees of 

 the class of Monocotyledons, do not live to so great an age, 

 there are a few exceptions to be found amongst them. The 

 "Dragon's Blood" is one. 



NOTE b. To those who consider the study of Botany too 

 difficult for Children; the following extracts from "A Tillage 

 Flower Show " are given, as the best proof that all the 

 more difficult steps may be surmounted, even by village chil- 

 dren, during their play hours. 



" As the seasons come round the children of H go into 



the fields to gather "Wild Flowers, and a faithful record is kept 

 and printed of the Parish Flora. Hard Names, such as 

 Monocotyledonous, and Inflorescens, are as familiar to them as 

 household words. They are engrafted on the memory by their 

 continual, practical illustration. The spelling-book gives them 

 names equally hard and important, such as, ple-ni-po-ten-tia-ry, 

 and ag-gran-dize-ment, but as these things are unfamiliar and 

 have no practical illustration amongst them, they are forgotten 

 almost as soon as learnt." 



