Do you think the tobacco plant is as useful as the cotton and flax plants?

Everybody eats sugar.  Did you ever see a table set for supper without a sugar bowl?

[Illustration:  “SUGAR-CANE IS A TALL PLANT.”]

The sugar in common use in this country is made chiefly from sugar-cane.  The sugar-cane is a tall plant which looks much like Indian corn when growing.  It is called the sugar-cane because it is filled with the sweet juice that is made into the sugar.

When the stalks are cut they are taken to a sugar mill.  Here they pass between great rollers which press out the juice.  The liquid is then boiled until it turns to sugar.

Much sugar is made from the sap of the sugar-maple tree.  In the early spring the sap begins to rise.  A hole is bored in the tree and a tube inserted, through which the sap passes to a bucket or other vessel placed to receive it.  The sap is boiled in large kettles and becomes syrup.  More boiling turns the syrup into sugar.

Write what you have learned of cotton and linen.

LESSON XXXIII.

FOREST TREES.

In your walks what things please you the most?  Is it not the trees? 
Trees are very useful to us, and we ought to be very grateful for them.

Name some trees along the streets and in the parks.  Are they useful to us, especially on a hot day?  Why?  Then what kind of trees do we call them? (Shade.) Which of these are the first to put on their green dresses in the spring?  Which are the brightest in autumn?

Name some trees that grow in the woods.

[Illustration:  A SHADY STREET.]

Name a tree whose wood is dark.  A tree whose wood is light.  A tree whose wood is hard.  A tree whose wood is soft.

Name some trees that are valued for the color and hardness, or the beautiful grain, of their wood.

What kind of wood are the desks made of?  The teacher’s table?

What kinds of wood are used in making chairs? tables? pianos? windows? floors?

If we wish to make a carriage, omnibus, cart, or wagon, which wood should we use?  Why?

From which trees do we get lumber for building?

Can you name a wood which is very hard and tough, and is used in building ships?

What do we call many trees together, like these?

What is Arbor Day?  Why need we plant trees?

  What do we plant when we plant the tree? 
  We plant the houses for you and me. 
  We plant the rafters, the shingles, the floors,
  We plant the studding, the laths, the doors,
  The beams and siding, all parts that be—­
  We plant the house when we plant the tree.

  What do we plant when we plant the tree? 
  A thousand things that we daily see.

  We plant tie spire that out-towers the crag,
  We plant the staff for our country’s flag,
  We plant the shade, from the hot sun free—­
  We plant all these when we plant the tree.