. Rod and gun. set fromthe brown grass, theeye requires somerelief, and nothing isSI) satisfying as thebeautiful green of ournative non-deciduoustrees, and for this ourspruce cannot be ex-celled. They makenearly, if not fully,as handsome a treeas the Norway spruceof the East, and amuch more handsomeone than the spruceof the Eastern Prov-inces. For the tii-styear or two afterplanting out its growthis so small that it israther discouraging,but after that thegrowth is very has a greatdeal to do with treegrowth. Elms, oaksand many kinds whichgrow readily at mod-erate elevations will
. Rod and gun. set fromthe brown grass, theeye requires somerelief, and nothing isSI) satisfying as thebeautiful green of ournative non-deciduoustrees, and for this ourspruce cannot be ex-celled. They makenearly, if not fully,as handsome a treeas the Norway spruceof the East, and amuch more handsomeone than the spruceof the Eastern Prov-inces. For the tii-styear or two afterplanting out its growthis so small that it israther discouraging,but after that thegrowth is very has a greatdeal to do with treegrowth. Elms, oaksand many kinds whichgrow readily at mod-erate elevations willnot grow with ash, Scotchpine and native birchwill grow well. Prob-ably the firobtained between Cal-gary and the moun-tains would do is said to be abalsam in the Rockies which would also probably do Eastern Canada balsam has not been a success with me,though I am not positive it would not if properly transplantedprove such. It is probable the Bull pine obtained from high. THE ? HARl MAPLE \A.,t •a^chuiinum .This is the symbolic Canadian tree, and is found from Nova Scotia to the prairie,and from the southern border of the Dominion northward to the height of land. elevations in British Columbia would be a success. The ashobtained from the Indian Head Kami hagbeen a decided success. White pine, white cedars, tamaracksand many of the non-deciduous trees cannot be successfullygniwn at Calgary. To be succe.«sful in transplanting trees, it is advisable thatthey should be removed as short a distance as possible, andthat the conditions should be as nearly similar as remove trees from a lower to a higher elevation if itcan be avoided ; the reverse may be adopted without incurringmuch loss. You can obtain any number cif varieties of trees ofthe poplar family and also of the spruce where the conditionsare very nearly similar, and whatever change would be infavour of Calgary. These could be obtained just for the costo
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