. The American forest : or, Uncle Philip's conversations with the children about the trees of America . esettlers always know that the soil is goodwhere they find it; so it saves them thetrouble of digging, and ploughing, and plant-ing, to see whether the land is worth culti-vating. Besides this, the wood is of an ex-cellent quality; fine-grained and hard, andgood both for cabinet-making and building. 82 CONVERSATIONS. The flowers are very beautiful, too; and asthe tree grows remarkably fast, it is properfor planting about houses and pleasure-grounds. The flowers are like stars, withgreen and
. The American forest : or, Uncle Philip's conversations with the children about the trees of America . esettlers always know that the soil is goodwhere they find it; so it saves them thetrouble of digging, and ploughing, and plant-ing, to see whether the land is worth culti-vating. Besides this, the wood is of an ex-cellent quality; fine-grained and hard, andgood both for cabinet-making and building. 82 CONVERSATIONS. The flowers are very beautiful, too; and asthe tree grows remarkably fast, it is properfor planting about houses and pleasure-grounds. The flowers are like stars, withgreen and white rays, and a large yellow spotin the centre. The leaf is like the leaf of thelocust. And now, my dears, I think we have donefor to-day. If you wish to learn any thingmore about trees, come to me on your nextholyday, and I will have some pretty picturesto show you of very beautiful trees, andflowers that grow in other parts of the UnitedStates; and I dare say there are several ofthem that you have never seen. And so goodnight, my dear children. Good night. Uncle Philip; we shall besure to Cone, Flower, and Leaf of the Large Magnolia, CONVERSATION IV. Uncle Philip tells the Boys and Girls aboutMagnolias and Laurels^ arid other beauti-ful Trees ; and shows them ivhy they oughtto be grateful to God for such Trees^ al-though they are not useful^ as well as forOaks and Maples. We come now, my dears, to a useless butvery beautiful class, that has long been fa-mous for the elegance of its flowers, andthe magnificence of its foliage. The mag-nolia has been called the pride of the southernforests, and if beauty alone could establish itsclaim, there would be no tree to dispute withit for the title ; but usefulness is more prizedthan what merely pleases the eye, and theoak, the pine, the maple, and various othertrees, plain as they are in comparison, aremuch more esteemed for their services thanthe splendid magnolia with all its loveliness. ^ Ahj that is like the story of the t
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