458 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



Range — San Bernardino Mountains, California, (north latitude 34°), to the 

 Columbia River Valley, British Columbia ( north latitude 52°), the best 

 groves being' found in Crook and Wasco counties, Oregon. 



Use — Lumber, fence posts, and rails. 



PACIFIC YEW. 

 ( Tarus brevifolia Nutt.) 



Small pyramidal trees seldom exceeding forty feet in height, but some- 

 times attaining a basal diameter of two feet or more. Does not occur in 

 groves or thickets by itself like the eastern yew. but usually favors moist, 

 sheltered gulches or stream banks. The tree is dioecious and the fruit is a, 

 small, cup-shaped, sweetish, edible berr3\ Leaves, dark green, short, and 

 two-ranked. The bark is thin, reddish, and shreddy. The sapwood i& 

 exceedingly limited in amount, and the heartwood, which is reddish when 

 freshly cut, but soon fades to a brown, is tough, elastic, and very durable. 



Range — California to Annette Island, Alaska. 



Use — Fence posts, fancy cabinetwork, etc. 



HAltDWOOD TUEES— .^lOSTLY DECIDUOUS. 



CALIFORNIA WAX MYRTLE. 



(Myrica Californica, Cham.) 



A small evergreen tree, rarely exceeding forty feet in height, by about 

 two feet in basal diameter. It usually favors a moist, rich soil and sheltered 

 locations. The wood is close grained, grayish in color, becoming darker oa 

 drying, and is valued for fancy wood turning. 



Range — California to Puget Sound, Washinton. 



Use — Furniture and cabinetwork. Bark and foliage are medicinaL 



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ASPEN OR POPLAR. 

 {Populus Triimiiloidrx, Michx.) 



One of the most widely distributed of the deciduous trees. It ranges in 

 altitude from sea level to six thousand feet, and makes a fair growth evea 

 in the dry, prairie regions, but thrives best on moist, rich stream banks at 

 the lower levels, where it attains a height of one hundred feet or more, by 

 two to three feet in diameter. 



Range — Lower California to tree limit at the mouth of the Yukon, and 

 to the Arctic Ocean, at the mouth of Mackenzie river. Eastward, to the 

 Atlantic. 



Use — Paper pulji, rails and fuel. 



BALM OF GILEAD, OR BALSAM POPLAR. 



(P. balsa III i/ero, Ijinn.) 



Has not so great a regional range as the preceding, to the southward, but 

 extends even farther to the noinhwest along the Yukon River. It ranges in 

 altitude from sea level to four thousand feet, but reaches its best develop- 

 ment on moist, rich stream banks and islands, where it may be found one 



