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which the famous bark-canoes are built ; it is a favourite 

 wood for making boot and shoe-pegs, as well as the reels 



15. — Leaf of white-ash* 



16 — teed of white-ash. 



or spindles on which thread is wound ; and it is also 

 used for making paper-pulp. 



The black birch is considered excellent as fire-wood. 

 The engraving No. 10, p. 41, represents the yellow birch ; 

 No. 11, p. 42, shows its leaf on the branch with its catkin, 

 or seed-pod ; No. 12, p. 43, shows the seed, enlarged ; and 

 No. 13, same page, represents the branch and leaf of the 

 black-birch, with its catkin. 



Fraxinus Americana — White- Ash. 

 This ash rejoices in rich, deep soils, rather danap than 

 otherwise, and shuns soils that are dry and too hard. 



18. — Seed of black-asta. 



17. — Fraxinus nigra— Leaf of black-ash. 



At maturity, it attains a height of eighty feet by two 

 feet, and sometimes more, in diameter. It is a quick 

 grower, and, in good soil, it has been known to measure 

 thirty feet by seven inches in diameter twenty years 

 from sowing. Cartwrights, coopers, and common cabinet- 

 makers, are always glad to get this wood, of which, 



