. The Canadian forester's illustrated guide [microform]. Forests and forestry; Forêts et sylviculture. 60 THE CANADIAN FORESTER S days, the odds are that it lacks moisture, a want always irremediably fatal. The balsam-tree grows to sixty feet high by two and a half in diameter ; the white-poplar to eighty feet high—a very fine irt'e. it is, too—the cotton-wood, reaches forty feet by one in diameter. The only one of these valued for its wood is the white-poplar, though the cot ton-wood furnishes good pulp for the manufacture of paper. Engravings No. 19, p. 46, and No. 20, p. 47, re- present the
. The Canadian forester's illustrated guide [microform]. Forests and forestry; Forêts et sylviculture. 60 THE CANADIAN FORESTER S days, the odds are that it lacks moisture, a want always irremediably fatal. The balsam-tree grows to sixty feet high by two and a half in diameter ; the white-poplar to eighty feet high—a very fine irt'e. it is, too—the cotton-wood, reaches forty feet by one in diameter. The only one of these valued for its wood is the white-poplar, though the cot ton-wood furnishes good pulp for the manufacture of paper. Engravings No. 19, p. 46, and No. 20, p. 47, re- present the leaf and seed of the cotton-wood, and No. 21, p. 4Y, a bough and the leaves of the American «^.—Leaves of the white-willow. Salix Alba—White Salix Vitellina—Yellow-wilIoio. The willows, though, according to some, they may not be indigenous in the country, have so spread them- selves throughout it, that they are able to dispute the rights of the original occupants of the soil, and on this account, I shall treat them as autochtkenes, and class them as such in my general list. The willow delights. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapais, J. C. (Jean Charles), 1850-1926. Montreal : E. Senécal
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