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There are several other trees, but, not being indigenous, they are not 

 given above, such as the Lombardy Poplar (Peuplier de Lombardie), 

 Populus Pyramidalis, the Locust Tree (Acacia), Robinia Pseudo Acacia, 

 and some few others. The Lombardy Poplar appears to have been one 

 of the trees always planted where one of the early mission stations was 

 established, and is to bo found especially around churches and old 

 seignorial mansions. 



PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA. 



1873. 



Rough products of the forest 1,325,280 



Manufactured products of the forest 107,163 



$1,587,941 $1,650311 

 105,441 186,268 



(Report of W. A. Hendry, Deputy- Commissioner of Crown Lands.) 



So well adapted is this province to the growth of timber, that with a 

 judicious system of felling trees, viz., not to cut them under a certain size, 

 the forest if preserved from fires would continue for many generations to 

 supply the present demand. Every portion of the unoccupied portions of 

 the province would now be covered with a heavy growth of wood were it 

 not for the destruction to the soil and forest by fires in the woods which 

 scourge the country every season. Forests create and gradually improve 

 a soil ; the axe, it is true, makes sad havoc with the trees, but fires are 

 terrible. 



The trees of Nova Scotia may be described as follows 

 LARCH or JUNIPER Aboriginal name HACKMATACK. This is the strong- * 

 est and most durable of all the pine kind which we have. For ship- 

 building purposes it is even superior to oak itself; in old vessels the 

 timbers made of hackmatack have been found entirely sound when those 

 of white oak were completely decayed. This wood is universally used in 

 every part of the province for treenails and knees, and, indeed, is exten- 

 sively exported in that shape to the LTnited States. It grows naturally 



