The Potato In the days of Queen Elizabeth in the 16th century, there lived a famous Englishman called Sir Walter Raleigh. He was a gentleman of good birth and …
Tea and Coffee Tea is the dried leaves of the tea plant. It is grown in China, Japan, India, and Ceylon. The leaves are gathered from the bushes four …
The Sugar-cane In India, the sugar-cane is a Kharif, or autumn, crop. In many parts of India, we can see at that season large fields of sugarcane ready for …
The Plantain Tree The plantain, or banana, is not really a tree, though it sometimes grows to a height of eighteen feet. It is a very large plant that …
The Coconut Tree The coconut, which is a kind of palm, is a very handsome tree. Its trunk rises straight up, sometimes as high as fifty feet, and is …
The Bamboo The bamboo does not look much like the grass that grows in the fields, yet it belongs to the grass family and is a kind of grass. …
The Wheat It is strange to think that the chief food of men, horses, cows, and sheep, is the same. They all eat grass. These animals eat the leaves …
The Rice Why is it that the chief food of the Punjabis is wheat, of the Kanarese millet, and of the Bengalis and Madrasis, rice? We might say because …
The Life of a Frog In the springtime, we can find in almost any still pond what looks like masses of white or grey jelly floating in the water. …
The Whale As the elephant is the largest land animal, the whale is the largest creature in the sea. We should not say it is the largest fish in …
