BALSAM POPLAR, OR TACAMAHAC. 



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are the chief recommendations of the Taeamahac, for 

 unless planted in a sheltered situation and a rich soil 

 it seldom attains to more than the dimensions of a tree 

 of the second rank, and that without assuming any beauty 

 or peculiarity of form to render it a conspicuous object 

 in ornamental planting. It is a native of North America, 

 reaching to high latitudes, and was found by Sir John 

 Franklin to form the greater part of the drift timber on 

 the shores of the Arctic Sea. It is also indigenous to 

 Northern Asia, being common in Siberia, the Altaic 

 range, and Dahuria. In these districts, according to Pal- 



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