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THE CANADIAN FORESTEr's 



spaces should be filled up with two or three willows 

 or poplars, in fact with any quick-growing trees 

 which may be cut six or seven years afterwards. In 

 fourteen years, the white-pine may be expected to fur- 

 nish timber thirty-five feet high by nine inch^-^ in dia- 



42. — Leaves and cone of white-pine. 



meter, on an average ; and in twenty-six years, fifty feet 

 by eighteen or twenty inches, may be looked for. The 

 Canadian white-pine attains a height of from one hundred 

 and twenty-five to one hundred and forty feet, with an 

 average diameter of seven feet. At the Centenary 



