. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. gen-erally depended upon to furnish the favorite balsam pillows for campers throughout theforests of this vast range. Rarely forming ex-clusive forests of any extent, it associates withthe Tamarack, Black Ash, Black Spruce, ArborVitae, etc. or where it is less common on up-lands with Beeches, Hemlocks, etc. Its wood, a cu. ft. of which when absolutely dry weighing lbs., is occasionally sawn into lumber for boxes, etc., and of late is being used in the manufacture of Leaves ab
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. gen-erally depended upon to furnish the favorite balsam pillows for campers throughout theforests of this vast range. Rarely forming ex-clusive forests of any extent, it associates withthe Tamarack, Black Ash, Black Spruce, ArborVitae, etc. or where it is less common on up-lands with Beeches, Hemlocks, etc. Its wood, a cu. ft. of which when absolutely dry weighing lbs., is occasionally sawn into lumber for boxes, etc., and of late is being used in the manufacture of Leaves about Vj in. long and acute, on cone-l)earin<; branches, and 1 in. or more and mostlyrounded at apex on sterile branches. Flowers inMay : pistillate with nearly orbicular purplescales smaller than the bracts which are obeor-date. serrulate with proiected slender tip. Conesli-4 in. long, oblong-cylindrical, rounded at tipgenerally bearing beads of free pitch with scalesaliout twice as long as the bracts, or rarely withbracts somewhat longer than the scales.^ 1. A. W., I. 22. 2. For genus see p.
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