. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. II The World's Commercial Products. tlie degree to which he is dependent on tik lierbs of the field for his support. The dweller in cities is areiistonied to find everything pro- \ided for him in a finished condition, and he accepts it withont realising whence it came or how it was procured. This is easily seen in the case of a child spending his ear
. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. II The World's Commercial Products. tlie degree to which he is dependent on tik lierbs of the field for his support. The dweller in cities is areiistonied to find everything pro- \ided for him in a finished condition, and he accepts it withont realising whence it came or how it was procured. This is easily seen in the case of a child spending his early years in a town. It comes to him as a revelation that his daily bread has any connection with the corn he has perhaps seen in a field during a lioliday, that sugar and his fa\ ourite sweetstuff, are derived fr(>m the sugar cane grown in the tropics, or from the more familiar beet-root, that his rubber ball is the produce of a forest tree, and that his clothes, at any rate in part, have also been gathered in the field. To the country child things are different. He lives in touch with Nature, the seasons for sowing and harvesting ar(> important events in his daily life. Still more so is this the ( ase with i)rimitive people. The native r,,,i-,, W-, , , , , races of tiie East and the West â¢n mi:'i;'; I ;t'1"" "r tew clothes, his house, his weapons, his , and th otl " :;5S^"it°a "^rSiv^'^t^"''"â¢'^":'"? 'r '"^^"* '""^'^ ^-""^ ^'- -^'-='' -' ---^ In. '^^''y ^';" -^ ^'''^''' "'â '" ^""^ ^''^' 'mportant step of growing for himself the plant, he needed, and or the tilling of the s. il, is perhaps the m ^t uK-i |;:'L;;:-:;;^;!;;^;:j:';;.;;^;^-::;^â :I^,;:::-â¢;,,^f-;;;- IN 'Jlisequrnci- w! mo\ nios e the village or town to a lerc ih far more laud awiiiable than t cases it is sufficient to aband pi ac
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