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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 684

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THE APPLE-TREE. Although this kindly tree has nothing better to offer us for eating thanuseless sour apples, he freely offers them with generous, outstretchedhands, never so far from the ground that they can not be easilygathered by hand or by a bag on the end of a pole. … THE SHELLBARK HICKORIES ARE UNINVITABLE AND STINGY.They offer no welcome and hold their nuts high up with the ends of their fingers, if possible out of reach of a tossed stick or stone. 556 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [April, w Another style of tree, somewhat different fromthe veteran type,…

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