Sugar comes from the sweet juice of the sugar-cane, a great plant which grows in hot lands far away. When the canes are ripe, they are cut down, and the sweet juice is squeezed out of them. Men boil the juice in great pans, and as the water of the juice boils away, the sugar is left behind. The thick, brown part of the juice is treacle.
Lesson 27
The Root of a Plant
"We had a fine lesson today on the roots of plants," said Will. "Didn"t we, Fred?""Yes," said Fred. "Let us come into the garden, and have a talk about it. Father asked me to thin out some of the young plants from this bed of stocks. They are growing too thickly together. If we pull them up, we can learn something by looking at the roots.
"Shake the root clear of the soil that clings to it," he went on. "Now what does the root look like, Norah?""It looks like a great many white threads or strings, hanging fromthe bottom of the stem," said Norah.
"So it does," said Fred. "Teacher says that, because these roots are made up of threads, they are called Fibrous Roots. Fibes means a thread or string.
