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generally recognized as black spruce b}^ manufacturers, dealers 

 and consumers of its valuable products. Probably the sim- 

 plest and easiest way to remedy the confusion arising from 

 change of names, of a common timber tree, is in this case sim- 

 ply to adopt the name of spruce, which will answer for com- 



Fig. HI. Black Spruce branch and cones, about one half natural size. 



