Canada and its provinces : a history of the Canadian people and their institutions by one hundred associates . ning such species as Purshiatridentata, Artemisia tridentata, and species of Gilia, Cactacea,Astu and Erigonum. On the Pacific coast and in the Sclkirks, where the pre-cipitation is heavy, the vegetation is of tropical luxuriance, andthe forest is of great value. The mixed forest of EasternCanada is also most important for its timber. The southernportion of the northern forest has merchantable timber, andthe northern forms a vast storehouse of pulpwood. Wherethe original forest has be
Canada and its provinces : a history of the Canadian people and their institutions by one hundred associates . ning such species as Purshiatridentata, Artemisia tridentata, and species of Gilia, Cactacea,Astu and Erigonum. On the Pacific coast and in the Sclkirks, where the pre-cipitation is heavy, the vegetation is of tropical luxuriance, andthe forest is of great value. The mixed forest of EasternCanada is also most important for its timber. The southernportion of the northern forest has merchantable timber, andthe northern forms a vast storehouse of pulpwood. Wherethe original forest has been removed, as by forest fire, spruce,balsam, birch and tamarac usually constitute the immediatesecond growth. The Barren Lands are treeless and support an Arcticflora,—mosses, lichens, grasses, flowers and stunted plants,of which Rhododendron lapponicum, Cassiope tetragona anddwarf willows are perhaps the most characteristic. Thestunted nature of the growth will be realized from the factthat on the shores of Hudson Strait the blueberry Is a bushabout one inch high, with proportionally diminutive Prepare,) .
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