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THE CANADIAN FORESTER'S 



walnut is, as every one knows, of great value in com- 

 merce, and the other, the negundo, has the remarkable 

 quality of great precocity, sugar being furnished by this 

 tree at seven or eight years old. The black-walnut has 

 been described in the chapter on the species belonging 



80. — Quercus coccinea — 

 Leaf of scarlet-oak. 



81. — Acorn of scarlet- 

 oak. 



82. — Quercus prinus — 

 Leaf of swamp chestnut oak. 



to Ontario, and the negundo will be described in the 

 chapter on Manitoba, where it is indigenous. 



CH.^PTER VII. 



FOREST TREES INDIGENOUS IN NEW BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA 



The species peculiar to these two provinces have been 

 already named ; the whole of them being comprised in 



83. — Quercus rtibra — Leal , S4 — Acorn, 



of red-oak. 



the sylvan flora of Ontario. Below, will be found a com- 

 plete list : 



Abies alba White-spruce. 



Abies Americana Double-balsam fir. 



Abies lialsamifera Balsam-fir. 



