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this use, and the Surveyor-General of that Territory, in a report 

 made in 1881, says that a grove of apple or pear trees, if set out at 

 twelve feet apart, will attain a wonderful height in a few years. 

 The fruit will be worthless, but the timber will grow straight and 

 tall, if the bodies are thus kept shaded; and adds: "I doubt if 

 more valuable timber could be grown, for either fuel or manufactur- 

 ing purposes, all things considered. Such trees would grow wher- 

 ever planted with but little care or expense." 



1035. The Mountain Ash {Firm Americana). This species 

 grows in high northern 

 latitudes, from Green- 

 land and Labrador to 

 the Pacific coast, and 

 in the New England 

 and Northern States. 

 It is generally found 

 upon mountains, and 

 grows to a small tree. 

 The fruit, which is red, 

 remains on during the 

 winter, and it b often 

 cultivated for orna- 

 ment. It much resem- 

 bles the European 

 mountain ash (P. au- 

 cuparia), but does not 

 grow to so large a size. 

 The latter grows freely 

 throughout the North- 

 ern States under culti- 

 vation, and is highly ^^ ^M 

 ornamental when in "^ y 



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1036. The Sweet-Scented Ceab Teee (Pirus cormaria). This 

 tree grows in Western New York, and as far west as Iowa, and 

 southward to Georgia and Louisiana. It forms a tree from ten to 

 twenty feet high, and is sometimes cultivated. The fruit, when 

 ripe, is an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, greenish-yellow, 

 somewhat translucent, and extremely acid. 



