Tag: Essay in English
The Silk The three kinds of materials we use mostly for our clothes are cotton, wool, and silk. We get these useful materials from very different sources. The cotton …
The Cotton Cotton needs a warm climate and rich soil to grow in: and the countries where most of it is grown are America, Egypt, and India. In India, …
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 …
