THE RED SPRUCE {Picea ruhens) 



Bright red downy twigs, red wood and reddish bark give this tree its name. Short, stiff, pointed, 4-angled leaves set all around 

 the twig prove this tree a spruce. The wood is used for the sounding boards of musical instruments 



li .nier uud (.sume leaves cut away to show bud) 



THE GREY PINE {P,nus dnancata) 



Its flat, grev-green leaves are in clusters of 2's on the yellow twigs. The cones are strongly curved and taper to a long 

 point. Among the pines this is a straggling good-for-little species, that clothes barren sand dunes and arctic bogs with a 

 straggling tree growth 



