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value; but, according to the testimony of the Commissioner, they 
are sadly in want of conservation. There were exhibited many 
excellent specimens of the native hardwoods, chiefly shown in 
the form of polished panels; all possessing the characteristic 
of remarkably light colour. The examples of ash, bird’s-eye 
maple, and birch were particularly fine. On the wall of this 
Court was displayed a large and most interesting map—the 
only contribution of the Dominion Government—on which was 
marked the limits of the Forest trees of Canada, by Dr Robert 
Bell, Assistant Director of the Canadian Geological Survey. It 
appeared that the trees of the higher zones were the spruce, 
larch, and balsam poplar, their limit being marked at about 
65° N.L. 
A nicely got up collection of forest tree seeds, indigenous to 
the Province of Quebec, along with beautifully executed coloured 
illustrations of the flowers and foliage of each tree, by Miss 
E. M. Jack, of Quebec, were also exhibited in the New Bruns- 
wick Court. 
Manitoba. 
No more instructive and interesting exhibit, froma practical point 
of view, was displayed than that sent from Manitoba. It showed 
the complete buildings of a Far West farm, all constructed of wood 
grown in the forests of the Colony. Wooden implements and 
utensils for farm, dairy, and domestic use were exhibited in great 
variety, and showed strength combined with lightness in a high 
degree. “Snake” and other fences in vogue on the prairies, 
were also a feature in this collection, from which the practical 
forester, as well as the intending emigrant, might have derived 
many a useful lesson. There were also exhibited specimens of 
about forty varieties of the timber indigenous to the North West 
and the Rocky Mountains, many of the sections displaying great 
size and fine quality. 
California. 
From another famous timber tree region in the New World 
came a most interesting representation of the gigantic ‘“‘ Redwood ” 
tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of the country to the north of the 
