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OUR FRIENDS THE TREES 



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while the cup is only a well rimmed shallow saucer covering 

 merely the base of the nut. 



The Bur Oak in winter is a rugged, "burly" tree, with heavy 

 blunt branches and dark, furrowed bark. Perhaps its most inter- 

 esting feature is the acorn, whose deep "mossy cup" largely covers 

 the nut. The leaves are sometimes very large. The apical third 

 is separated by two deep, rounded sinuses from the remainder 

 of the leaf, which is many lobed. There is no bright autumn 

 coloration ; it is yellowish at best, but of tener a plain yellowish 

 brown. 



The White Oak is a noble tree, distinguished by its light 

 gray, shallow fissured bark, its warty-cupped, sweet acorn and 

 its very deeply lobed leaves, which assume a blood purple color 

 in the fall, making the tree a very showy feature of the distant 

 landscape. 



OUR FRIENDS THE TREES; READING LESSON FOR GRADE II 



By Emilie Yunker, Louisville, Ky. 



How wonderful are the trees ! They give us nuts and fruits 

 to eat. Where would the squirrels be if there were no nuts? 

 What would the birds do if there were no trees? Some of them 

 would have no homes and no food. A dreary world this would 

 be without our friends the trees. 



The world is using up its trees. Let us plant more. We 

 need them for furniture, for medicine, for fire-wood, for tanning 

 leather, for building houses and ships, and for their beauty and 

 shade. 



