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the well known paper or canoe birch, which grows 

 to a large tree, and is found from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific. The white birch, a smaller tree, is found in 

 the Maritime Provinces and westward to 

 eastern Ontario. The leaves are triangular 

 in outline with a long, tapering point. 

 The yellow birch is found from the Atlan- 

 tic to the lake of the Woods and is the 

 largest birch in Canada. Its name comes 

 from ..its yellowish, straw-coloured bark. 

 Sweet or cherry birch, which comes into 

 Canada only at a few places in southern 

 Ontario and Quebec, has darker bark, 

 &/rch w hich is sweet and aromatic. Western 

 birch, which is a large tree and has 

 brown bark, is chiefly found in southwestern 

 British Columbia. Two smaller birches, the Alaska 

 and mountain birches, are found from Saskatchewan 

 westward. The wood of the larger birches is 

 used for making furniture, interior finish and 

 veneers, and of the white birches for spools, 

 bobbins, clothes-pins, and small woodenware gen- 

 erally. 



THE CHERRIES 



There are three species of cherry found in Eastern 

 Canada, the black, red, and choke cherries. The 

 black cherry is the largest tree with long, narrow 

 leaves having fine teeth; and dark fruit. The red 

 cherry is a smaller tree, and has red fruit and lighter 

 bark. The choke cherry has dark bark and rather 

 broad and blunt leaves. It does not grow as tall as 

 the others. The fruit is dark-coloured, with peculiar 



