SPELLING BOOK OF UTILITY.

BY RICHARD CHAMBERS, F.L.S.

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THE OAK.

The oak has ever been distinguished as the glory of the forest, both for its importance and its longevity. The earliest mention that is made of this tree is in Holy Writ; that ancient of days, the "Oak of Mamre," under which Abraham sat in the heat of the day, and which, we are told, remained an object of veneration even in the time of Constantine. The oak was held sacred by the Greeks, the Romans, the Gauls, and the Britons. Among the Romans it was dedicated to Jupiter; among the ancient Britons, its consecrated shade was devoted to the most sacred ceremonies of the Druids, and scarcely is it held in less veneration by their descendants, who see in every acorn that drops from its branching arms

Those sapling oaks, that at Britannia's call
May heave their trunks mature upon the main,
And float the bulwarks of her liberty.

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THE REPORT OF THE RST GENERAL

INSECTS.

When an insect first issues from the egg it is called by naturalists larva, which means a caterpillar, a grub, or a maggot. The distinction seems to be, that caterpillars are produced from the eggs of butterflies and moths; grubs, from the eggs of beetles, bees, wasps, &c.; and maggots, which are without feet, from blue-bottles, house-flies, cheeseflies, &c. Maggots are sometimes called worms, as in the case of the meal-worm; but the common earth-worm is not a larva, nor is it ranked by modern naturalists among insects. The larvæ of insects are remarkably small at first, but grow rapidly. The full grown caterpillar of the goat-moth is seventy-two thousand times heavier than when it issues from the egg, and the maggot of the blow-fly or blue-bottle, is, in twenty-four hours, one hundred and fifty times heavier than at its birth.

THE TEA TREE.

Tea is a species of Camellia growing wild in China and Japan, celebrated for its leaf, immense quantities being annually exported into other countries, with which the North Americans and Europeans, particularly the English, compose an agreeable beverage by infusion. This nation alone consumes more than all the rest of Europe: they attach so much importance to its use, that the first mark of politeness they shew to strangers is an invitation to drink tea with them.

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