are in great demand. The hornbeam or ironwood tree is found in large 

 quantities in various parts of the Province where the soil is deep and 

 rich. Its wood is largely in demand for domestic purposes where tough- 

 ness and elasticity is required. The wild cherry is common, but its 

 wood is very little used. The willow, of which there are three kinds, 

 known locally as the swamp, the black and the basket willow, are abun- 

 dant, the two former especially so, and they attain a very large size. 

 The wood is not used for any mechanical purpose. Owing to the disap- 

 pearance of the white pine, a number of mills in New Brunswick are now 

 engaged in the manufacture of box shocks for Cuba, and a large trade is 

 carried on in that business, the coarser kind of pine being used. 



Mr. Ward states as follows, speaking of New Brunswick : " Cut on 

 Government lands equal to 160,000,000 feet of all classes, principally 

 spruce, the pine in this Province, once so famed, being almost exhausted. 

 There being a large extent of private lands in this Province, I think it is 

 safe to estimate that there is not less than 500,000,000 feet of lumber and 

 timber produced, considerably more than three-fourths of which is 

 exported, the balance being for home use. The extent of territory is 

 17,500,000 acres, ten millions of which is granted and located, leaving 

 seven and one half millions still vacant, and giving to the Province 

 $152,000 for timber dues, ground rent, &c." 



PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 



This Province does not produce more lumber than is required for home 

 consumption. 



The following is a list of the trees native to the Island, all of which are 

 found in the other Provinces. It is a noteworthy fact that the white 

 cedar is wanting in this list, that tree not being indigenous : Poplar 

 leaved birch, canoe birch, yellow birch, black birch and red birch, horn- 

 beam, white spruce, Norway spruce, black spruce, mountain maple, rock 

 or sugar maple, striped maple, red maple, black, white, red and green 

 ash, red cedar, beech, larch and tamarac, white elm, ironwood, large 

 aspen, balsam, white and cottonwood poplar, aspen, white pine, cypress 

 or banksian pine, red pine, hemlock spruce, balsam and double balsam, 

 fir, white and yellow willow. 



