ENGELMANN SPRUCE 
Picea engelmanni (Parry) Engelmann 
Engelmann spruce is a majestic tree,sometimes growing toaheight 
of a hundred and fifty feet with a trunk four or five feet in diameter. 
Its branches are produced in regular whorls. When growing with suf- 
ficient space atound it, it is a handsome pyramidal tree, and in favor- 
able seasons the top is adorned with masses of tich brown cones. 
From Arizona and New Mexico northwatd to Alberta, British 
Columbia, and Yukon is the range of Engelmann spruce. 
The branch sketched grew in the valley of Clearwater River, forty 
miles by trail north of Lake Louise, Alberta, at an altitude of 7,000 feet. 
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