White 

 P/ne 



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cones" hanging downward and with thin scales; and 

 hard "pines with their leaves in bundles of two or 

 three and their cone scales thick and woody. Ihe 

 white pine of the eastern provinces 

 is the most important and was for 

 many years the chief lumber used in 

 the construction of houses. The 

 bark is dark and rough, and the 

 wood almost white. It is the only 

 pine with five needles in a bundle 

 native to Eastern Canada. The 

 western white pine is^ a different 

 species confined to British Columbia 

 and has larger cones, though other- 

 wise it resembles the eastern species. 

 The red pine of Eastern Canada 

 has long leaves, two in a bundle, reddish bark and 

 wood, and is not found west of southeastern Mani- 

 toba. The western yellow pine is found only in 

 British Columbia, and has long leaves in clusters of 

 threes, or occasionally twos, and reddish bark. Jack 

 pine grows all across Canada into Alberta where it is 

 finally replaced by lodgepole pine, which is found 

 throughout British Columbia. Both have their 

 short leaves in bundles of twos and the cones are 

 small and curved. The foliage of the lodgepole pine 

 is darker and the leaves not scattered along the 

 twigs so much as in the eastern jack pine. There is 

 more jack pine used for railway ties in Canada than 

 any other species of tree. 



THE SPRUCES 



There is more spruce cut into lumber in Canada 

 than any other species and it has also the first place 



