. The Canadian naturalist [microform] : a series of conversations on the natural history of Lower Canada. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 11 Hi If 1 10 THE CANADIAN' NATURALIST. If â F. â Like nobler creatures, it often survives its beauty. The fir or balsam is the most elegant of the pine family : it usually grows very straight; the branches project all at the same angle, and grow to a length which dinu'nishes with great regularity as they approach the top ; giving to the tree the form of a slender but very regular cone. The foliage is dense, and of a greener tint than that of the other
. The Canadian naturalist [microform] : a series of conversations on the natural history of Lower Canada. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 11 Hi If 1 10 THE CANADIAN' NATURALIST. If â F. â Like nobler creatures, it often survives its beauty. The fir or balsam is the most elegant of the pine family : it usually grows very straight; the branches project all at the same angle, and grow to a length which dinu'nishes with great regularity as they approach the top ; giving to the tree the form of a slender but very regular cone. The foliage is dense, and of a greener tint than that of the others, which gives it additional beauty, and the bark is very smooth and fair. Its surface is covered with bladders full of a fluid resin, which hardens by long exposure : this is the Canada Balsam of the apothecaries, and gives tlie spe- cific name. C. â Does the fir grow to a great height ? /'. â Not perhaps to the gigantic altitude of the hemlock or pine, but it is by no means a dwarf. It is quite a common thing, on looking from an elevation, to see the dark, conical, spear-like tops of the firs rising here and there, above the general mass of foliage. A circumstance recently led me to inquire into this. I had read in a work of scientific authority, that " the Balsam (Abies Balsamca) rarely grows above the height of forty feet:" this remark struck me at once as incorrect, as I had often seen them much higher. To satisfy myself, I went into the woods, and felled almost the first 'I saw, one of by no means extraordinary stature, and found the height, by. Piiius liiilstiiiifii. 1 I. 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 Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888. London : J. van Voorst
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