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the St. Lawrence. The Eock-pine, however, is an excep- 

 tion : it is hardly ever met with above Quebec : 



Arbor vitse or white-cedar. 



Balsam-fip. 



Black-asb. 



Black-birch. 



Oouble-l^alsam fir. 



Poplar-leaved birch. 



Red-birch. 



Hed-a sh. 



Red-pine. 



Rock-pine. 



White-pine. 



Yellow-birch. 



Yellow-pine. 



As far as the Saguenay, the following occur : 



American elm. 

 Large-toothed poplar. 

 Mountain-maple. 

 Red-maple. 



Striped-maple, 

 Sugar-maple. 

 White-willow. 

 Yellow-willow 



Leaving Cap Tourmente, the following species join 

 the others : 



American ash. 



Hemlock. 



Ironwood. 



Lime-tree. 

 Red oak. 



Ascending the river from Quebec, the following 

 species, in addition to the above-named, are found : 



Beech. 



Butternut. 



Hornbeam. 



Post-oak. 



White-oak. 



And lastly, in the western region of the province, 

 from Three Rivers onwards, we find the following eight 

 additional species : 



Bitler-hickory. 

 Button-wood. 

 Coffee-tree. 

 Cottonwood, 



Red-elm. 



Shell-bark hickory. 

 Silver-maple. 

 White-heart hickory* 



I may mention here two trees, which though not in- 

 digenous in the province of Quebec, are proved by many 

 experiments to be easy of cultivation in our latitude as 

 far as ninety miles below Quebec : the black-walnut, and 

 the negundo or ash-leaved maple. Of these two, the black 



