. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 80 adaptability to all soils, its rapid growth, dense spray and foliage, and its comparative cheap- ness. The Norway spruce is also a very pliable tree, and bears transplanting well, and in the shelter-hedge it patiently submits to the free use of the knife in close trimming. For the shelter grove, and especially for the single or grouped trees of the lawn, nothing can excel the beautiful grace of form, nor the depth and purity of green presented
. Canadian forest industries 1882. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 80 adaptability to all soils, its rapid growth, dense spray and foliage, and its comparative cheap- ness. The Norway spruce is also a very pliable tree, and bears transplanting well, and in the shelter-hedge it patiently submits to the free use of the knife in close trimming. For the shelter grove, and especially for the single or grouped trees of the lawn, nothing can excel the beautiful grace of form, nor the depth and purity of green presented by the common American hemlock-spruce (Abies Canadensis). This species was common in much of your early forests and must be familiar to you all. The hemlock has a northerly limit, as shown by Mr. Drummond's map, extending from the northwest and north- east coasts of Lake Superior, by the head waters of the Ottawa River, crossing the St. Lawrence below Quebec and traversing New Brunswick to the ocean in latitude 47 degrees. The hemlock makes such a dense growth of foliage and slender twigs, that it is perhaps the very best plant for the protective shelter hedges that should be found about the dwellings and outhouses of every farm in your broad domain of Ontario. The native balsam (abies balsamea), as you seem to be aware, is hardy enough and very beautiful when young, but unsatisfactory for planting because it is apt to grow shabby when older. The red cedar (juniperus virginiana) has a wide range both north and south, east and west. Though less extended than the other native evergreens, this juniper is found in your part of Ontario, and would be hardy enough, which is not the case with the Irish juniper and some other garden forms. The red cedar has been called the poor man's evergreen in our Western States, because of its abundance, its consequent cheapness, and the ease with which it may be brought into cultiva- tion. Its growth is sufficiently rapid ; trees set out twenty fe
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