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ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING 



The Lombardy is the spirelike tree which seems to 

 reach toward the clouds, and its tall, narrow form is 

 familiar in many sections of our country, although the 

 tree was originally imported from Europe. 



Cottonwood and balm of Gilead are two well-known 

 members of this family. Cottonwood is best known in 



the West, where it often 

 constitutes the chief and 

 only growth along the wa- 

 ter courses, and balm of 

 Gilead is known as one 

 of our common city shade 

 trees. This latter tree, of- 

 ten called the balsam, is 

 really an important tree 

 of the great northwestern 

 country, being found plen- 

 tifully in the Klondike, 

 and often forming in that 

 far northern country great 

 forests thousands of square 

 miles in extent. It is used as a shade tree because it 

 stands the smoke and gas of the city where many other 

 trees pine away and die. 



57. Sassafras. We find many freaks in the tree 

 world, and nature seems to have tried to see how odd 



FIG. 118. Cotton- 

 wood, or Caro- 

 lina Poplar 



