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THE CANADIAN FORESTER'S 



Cut-Ieaved weeping-Jsirch, 



Yellow-birch. 



Black-birch. 



"White-spruce. 



Norway spruce. 



Sugar-maple. 



Red-maple. 



Black-ash. 



White-ash. 



Beech. 



Horse-chestnut. 



American larch. 



Negundo or ash-leaved maple. 



Butternut. 



American elm. 

 Balsam poplar. 

 White-poplar. 

 Colton-tree poplar. 

 , Lombardy poplar. 

 Canada white-pine. 

 Button-wood. 



JjOCUSt. 



Balsam-pine. 



Kilmarnock weeping-willow. 



Mountain-ash. 



Arbor vitse. 



Lime-tree or bass-wopd. 



Tulip-tree. 



Almost all these have been described before : I will 

 now give a description of the foreign species contained 

 in the above list : — 



Betula pendula laciniata — Cut-leaved weeping-birch. 



This variety of birch, a native of Europe, which in 

 quality and habit of growth resembles our birch-tribe, 

 and, like them, is perfectly hardy, is distinguished 

 from the other birches by the pendulous growth of its 

 branches ; henci the name, weeping-hixch.. Engraving 116, 

 p. 129, represents this tree ; and eng. IIT, same page, its 

 seed. 



JEsculus hippocastanea — Horse-chestnut. 



This foreigner attains a height of fifty feet ; and in 

 spring is covered with the loveliest white flowers, 

 marked with red and yellow, which have a charming 

 effect against the dark green barkground of the leaves. 

 The horse-chestnut forms a fine globular head, and 

 needs no recommendation of mine. It grows freely in 

 Quebec and Ontario. Though, in the Province of Quebec, 

 thi? tree suffers a little from frost when young, it always 

 survives its attacks, and in a few years becomes perfectly 

 hardy, and proof against all weathers. Engraving 118, 

 p. 130, depicts the horse-chestnut ; eng. 119, p. 181, 



