Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. By Sara Coleridge. The Fourth Edition, with Many Cuts |
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[A shrub is called frutex, and arbor's a tree] |
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[A shrub is called frutex, and arbor's a tree]
A shrub is called frutex, and arbor's a tree;And what, my dear boy, may the difference be
That 'twixt trees and shrubs you have found?
“A tree with one stem or trunk springs from its root,
A shrub into several branches doth shoot
As soon as it gets above ground.”
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