HEMLOCK (Tsuga Canadensis, Carr.). 60 to 100 feet. 

 Tapering, pyramidal tree, with slender, horizontal branches, 

 drooping, and ending in feathery spray. Bark thin, scaly, 

 cinnamon-red to gray. Wood light, soft, coarse-grained, 

 reddish brown, used in building, and for railroad ties. Bark 

 used in tanning leather, and dyeing. Leaves ^ to f inch long, 

 flat, blunt or notched at tip, pale and ridged beneath, shining, 

 dark green above, on minute petioles, spiral on twig, but 

 twisted to seem 2-ranked, falling off the third season, leaving 

 bare twigs rough with persistent, horny leaf-bases. Flowers 

 in May: staminate globular, lateral, solitary; pistillate con- 

 ical, terminal, purple, with thin scales overlapping. Fruits 

 pendent, brown, thin-scaled cones, on downy stalks, opening 

 during the first winter, letting fall the winged seeds. Dist.: 

 Nova Scotia to southern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; 

 south along mountains to Alabama. Favorite ornamental 

 tree. 



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