ion: "THE ORANGE TREES ARE LOADED WITH GOLDEN FRUIT."]

What fruit trees have you seen? What do we call the place where many
fruit trees grow?

Did you ever pick berries? What makes it hard to pick blackberries?

Name fruits that grow about here. Which grow on trees? Which on bushes?
Which on vines?

Mention the different uses of these fruits.

The orange is one of the most delicious and wholesome of fruits. It
grows only in the warmer parts of our country. In winter as well as in
summer, the orange trees are loaded with golden fruit and fragrant
blossom. The blossoms are white, and are very beautiful.

Name other fruits that grow in warm parts of the country.

People who live in cold countries need such food as will make them warm.
What kinds of food are best in cold countries? What people live mainly
on fish and the flesh of animals? Do any fruit trees grow in very cold
countries?

What kinds of food are best in hot countries? The people cannot eat
fatty food, for that would heat the body. Do we find in such countries
grain, vegetables and cooling fruits for the people to live upon?

_Write_ answers to some of the questions asked in the lesson, so as to
make a composition about fruits.

LESSON XXXII.

USEFUL PLANTS.

What plant supplies us with much of our clothing? Name articles of
clothing made of cotton.

Did you ever see a field of cotton? In the summer the young plant is
covered with pretty, pale-yellow flowers. In the autumn you see the pod
or boll which contains the cotton.

[Illustration: "YOU SEE THE POD OR BOLL."]

As the pod ripens, it bursts open. The cotton-field is now a pretty
sight--the bright green leaves, yellow blossoms, and snowy cotton all
mingled together. Form a picture in your mind of a field of cotton in
bloom.

The cotton is now picked. The first thing is to separate it from its
seed. This is done by a machine called a cotton-gin.

[Illustration: "FLAX IS A SMALL PLANT."]

Now it is ready to be pressed in great bales and sent to market. It
will, at last, go to the cotton mills and be spun into thread, then
woven into muslin, calico, etc.

Are the seeds of any use? They contain a great deal of oil, which is
pressed out by machinery. What is the name of this oil? What use is made
of it?

There is another plant from which clothing is made.

Do you know what plant linen is made from? Linen comes from the flax
plant.

Flax is a small plant which grows two or thr