. Our Canadian prairies [microform] : being a description of the most notable plants of Manitoba : the chief noxious weeds and how to destroy them, the trees and wild fruits, along with Arbor day exercises and poems. Agriculture; Botany; Agriculture; Botanique. m 108 OC/A' CANADIAN' PRAIRIES. m \ \-K ^ And tho firo in west fades out; And ho showoth his mjo;],! ,,ji ji ^ild midnight, When tho storms tliroiiyli his branches shout.' (Qiicrrttif viacrocarjia.) B.—Jfy tree is the birch. We have two bii-ches in Manitoba. One is the Canoe birch of which Long-fellow tells in Jliawatha, "
. Our Canadian prairies [microform] : being a description of the most notable plants of Manitoba : the chief noxious weeds and how to destroy them, the trees and wild fruits, along with Arbor day exercises and poems. Agriculture; Botany; Agriculture; Botanique. m 108 OC/A' CANADIAN' PRAIRIES. m \ \-K ^ And tho firo in west fades out; And ho showoth his mjo;],! ,,ji ji ^ild midnight, When tho storms tliroiiyli his branches shout.' (Qiicrrttif viacrocarjia.) B.—Jfy tree is the birch. We have two bii-ches in Manitoba. One is the Canoe birch of which Long-fellow tells in Jliawatha, " ivo mo of your bark, O biivli troo ! Of your yoilow biuk, O birch troo ! Growing by tho rusliing i-ivor, Tall and stately in tho ; The Manitoba birch, called the low birch, is a small tree, very luunble, not being: more than eight feet high, yet not to be despised. 1 am vei-y g-lad to say that one of the uses of the birch has in our day almost entirely passed away. Its twigs were used by the village school masters to jmnisli unruly boys. We live in happier days. Our teachers appeal to our g-otMl sense, and wc try to obey because it is rig-ht to do so. Too much whipping only nuikes boys woi-so, and they come to think little of doing wi-ong, wlierc the birch is used. How well Shakespeart; says : "Having bound up tho tluvatoning twigs of birch, Only to stick it in tiio c-Iiibhon's sight For tornu', not to use ; in tiiuo tlio rod Becoiuoa nioro mock'd than fear';' We rejoice at the departure of the birch from our scliools. (Betida papijrifera and liefu/a pumila.) Scholar C—1 sing tlie praises of the Hazel tree. It is not tall or strong, but it is useful. We gather ita brown nuts on the way to scliool, and wo sec tlie. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bryce, George, 18
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