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lands and Southward. BEECH has a somewhat similar range, but 

 is found farther down the St. Lawrence Valley, and occurs on the 

 northern shores of Lake Huron. In Central and South-Western 

 Ontario it is perhaps the most commonly met with tree. In New 

 Brunswick, though met with inland, the beech is absent from the 

 Bay of Fundy coast the result, probably, of the heavy fogs there. 



SUGAR MAPLE is an abundant tree in Nova Scotia, Prince 

 Edward's Island and New Brunswick, throughout the St. Lawrence 

 Valley, and in Western Ontario as far as the north shore of Lake 

 Huron and as the east and west, but not the north coasts of 

 Lake Superior. ASPEN and BALSAM POPLAR, whilst familiar trees 

 throughout Ontario and Quebec, range far Northward from New- 

 foundland to James Bay and northwestward, and are most abund- 

 ant in these higher latitudes. WHITE ELM, perhaps our most 

 graceful tree and forming also a valuable item of export, is fairly 

 common from Gaspe" to Lake Nipigon and Southward, and espe- 

 cially in the western peninsula of Ontario. In the valley of the 

 Moose River, about 120 miles from its mouth, Prof. Robert Bell 

 has found a small outlier of these trees. RED CEDAR as a shrub 

 extends high northward, but as a tree it is scarce north of the 

 Georgian Bay and north or eastward of the Ottawa River, and is 

 little known in the Ottawa Valley. On the other hand, WHITE 

 CEDAR, or ARBORVITJE, is common everywhere from Gasp6 and 

 Lake St. John through the upper Gatineau district to James' 

 Bay and southward. Even in the Ontario peninsula it grows 

 luxuriantly, attaining a height of sometimes from 50 to 60 feet. 

 In New Brunswick it is not uncommon, but in Nova Scotia and 

 Newfoundland it seems to be wanting. 



HEMLOCK occurs in Nova Scotia, but is rare or wanting on the 

 east coast of New Brunswick, and is wanting in Gasp6 and in the 

 Lake Superior district, whilst in the Province of Quebec, south of 

 the St. Lawrence, it is very abundant, 'its bark forming there a 

 most important item of export. In the Ottawa Valley and in the 

 Ontario peninsula it is a fairly well known tree. TAMARAC is 

 comparatively common throughout both Ontario and Quebec, and 

 even as far northward as Moose Factory, on Hudson Bay, is a 

 lar^e tree measuring two feet in diameter of its trunk. 



