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g. How long do the pine trees live? Write a story of all that has 

 happened to your neighborhood since the pine tree which you have been 

 studying was planted. 



lo. Make the following drawings : A bundle of pine needles showing 

 the sheath and its attachment to the twig; the cone; the cone scale; the 

 seed. Sketch a pine tree. 



Supplementary reading — Trees in Prose and Poetry, pp. 32, 151, 152; 

 The Spirit of the Pine, Bayard Taylor; To a Pine Tree, Lowell; Nature in 

 Verse, pp. 15, 288. 



THE NORWAY SPRUCE 



Teacher's Story 

 rHE Norway spruce is a native of Europe, and we 

 find it in America the most satisfactory of all 

 spruces for ornamental planting; it lifts its 

 slender cone from almost every park and private 

 estate in our country, and is easily distinguished 

 from all other evergreens by the drooping, pen- 

 dant habit of its twigs, which seem to hang 

 down from the straight, uplifted branches. We 

 have spruces of our own — the black, the white 

 and the red spruces ; and it will add much to the 

 interest of this lesson for the pupils to read in 

 the tree and forestry books concerning these 

 American species. Chewing gum and spruce beer are the products of the 

 black and red spruce of our eastern forests. The Douglas spruce, which is 

 a fir and not a spruce, is also commonly planted as an ornamental tree, but 



Staminale blossoms and young cone of a Norway spruce 

 Photo by G. F. Morgan. 



