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WOOD, and the CHESTNUT are hardly now in sufficient abundance 

 to make them economically important, and, as already indicated, 

 their range in Canada is very circumscribed. The BUTTONWOOD 

 grows most luxuriantly on the banks of rivers, in deep, moist soil. 

 BLACK WALNUT has become scarce, and threatens soon to be- 

 come virtually extinct. It is now chiefly found with us on the 

 tributaries of the River St. Clair. BUTTERNUT and WHITE OAK 

 have about a similar range in Eastern and Western Ontario, and 

 though not now of very large size, are in fair abundance, es- 

 pecially in the Western Peninsula ; but in the Province of Quebec 

 they are comparatively scarce, White Oak becoming a rare tree in 

 the St. Lawrence Valley towards Quebec, though found inland. 

 Butternut is said to be absent on Bay of Fundy coast. BASSWOOD 

 is on the whole plentiful in the country lying south of a line, 

 drawn from the Bay of Fundy to Thunder Bay. In Southern 

 Manitoba it is also a well-known tree. In Western Canada it 

 enters somewhat largely into the commoner classes of furniture. 

 Even as far north as the Manitoulin Islands it is frequent, and is 

 there a large tree, sometimes attaining two feet in diameter. A 

 small outlying number of these trees, as well as maples, around 

 Lake St. John, would seem to indicate a milder climate there 

 than the high latitude of the lake would suggest. RED OAK is 

 entirely absent from the whole north shore of Lake Superior, ex- 

 cepting, curiously, Michipicoten Island. It is a common, though 

 not now a very large tree, throughout Ontario, occurring as far 

 north as Lake Temiscamingue at the head-waters of the Ottawa ; 

 and in the Province of Quebec ranges down the St. Lawrence 

 Valley towards the neighbourhood of Quebec. YELLOW BIRCH 

 appears to be a more familiar tree in this valley than around the 

 great lakes. In Gaspe square timber two feet across is made 

 from it. WHITE BIRCH, on the other hand, is a more northern 

 tree, occurring everywhere far north, and in considerable abun- 

 dance even at Moose Factory, on Hudson Bay, being large 

 enough for canoes. 



WHITE ASH is fairly common from the neighborhood of 

 Montreal West to the Georgian Bay District and Manitoulin Is- 



