ENGELMANN SPRUCE 



Picea engelmanni (Parry) Engelmann 



Engelmann spruce is a majestic tree, sometimes growing to a height 

 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 around it, it is a handsome pyramidal tree, and in favor- 

 able seasons the top is adorned with masses of rich brown cones. 



From Arizona and New Mexico northward 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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