108 ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING 
The Lombardy is the spirelike tree which seems to 
reach toward the clouds, and its tall, narrow form is 
familiar in many sections of our country, although the 
tree was originally imported from Europe. 
Cottonwood and balm of Gilead are two well-known 
members of this family. Cottonwood is best known in 
the West, where it often 
constitutes the chief and 
only growth along the wa- 
ter courses, and balm of 
Gilead is known as one 
of our common city shade 
trees. This latter tree, of- 
ten called the balsam, is 
really an important tree 
of the great northwestern 
country, being found plen- 
tifully in the Klondike, 
Fic. 118. Cotton- and often forming in that 
ae es far northern country great 
forests thousands of square 
miles in extent. It is used as a shade tree because it 
stands the smoke and gas of the city where many other 
trees pine away and die. 
57. Sassafras. We find many freaks in the tree 
world, and nature seems to have tried to see how odd 
