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recognize. It is a good thing to learn to know a tree 
by its bark. The bark of trees is an interesting and 
beautiful subject for study. 
The wood 
of the elm 
is tough and 
hard, and is. 
used in build- 
ing ships 
and making' 
wheels, and 
for other 
purposes where a tough, 
There are a number 
but the best-known 
American elm that is 
parks and for shade 
the red elm, or slippery 
is fragrant and muci- 
chew. This bark is 
sometimes ground up 
Every country boy 
slippery elm bark to 
with his nuts. 
hard wood is required, 
of species of elm trees, 
one is the beautiful 
everywhere used in 
trees. Next to this is 
elm, whose inner bark 
laginous and good to 
good for colds and is 
and made into lozenges, 
lays up a supply of 
dry in the attic along 
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