CHAPTER IV 



TIMBER OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA 



White Pine Red Pine Longleaf Pine Shortlenf Pine Loblolly 

 Pine Cuban Pine Sugar Pine Western Yellow Pine Douglas 

 Fir Firs Larch Eastern Hemlock Western Hemlock Yew 

 Hickories Cedar, Eed and White Eed Gum Tupeloe 

 Black Gum Chestnut Buckeyes Spruce Myrtle Cherry 

 Oaks Buttonwood Poplar and Cottonwood Tulip Tree Ash 

 Birch Beech Elm Californian Eedwood Big Trees Maple 

 Walnut Basswood Cypress Persimmon Locust Osage 

 Orange Dogwood Hardy Catalpa Tests of American Timber. 



As in the north of Europe, the chief timbers of North 

 America are pines and firs, timbers which probably cover 

 more forest area than any others in the world ; but besides 

 these Canada, to a certain extent, and the United States, 

 especially, possess a greater variety of useful hardwoods 

 than is to be found in any other country. 



White Pine (Pinus strobus) , the yellow pine of the English 

 market, is a tree of noble dimensions, reaching a height of 

 80 to 100 ft. or more and 7 or 8 ft. in diameter. In 

 the days when the tree was much more plentiful than it is 

 now, single logs 60 ft. long and 36 inches square have 

 been cut ; called by English botanists Weymouth pine, 

 but tJic timber is known in Britain as Yelloiv pine or Quebec 

 pine, as it is chiefly exported from Quebec and other St. 

 Lawrence ports. The tree grows and was formerly very 

 common in Lower Canada, and notwithstanding the in- 

 roads which have been made upon it there are large 



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