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Things to 'Jaam and Do W forest. Betides canoes, wigwams, vessels, and paper from its bark, it furnishes svrup from ito sap and the famer bark is used SLb an emergency fooa. Every novice rediscovers for himself that the outer bark is highly inflammable as well as waterproof, and ideal for fire-lighting. Though so much Uke the Gray Birch, it is larger, whiter, and with but sma'l black scars at each limb. Thfc timber is much the same, but this weighs 37 lbs. Its leaf and catkin distinguish it; the former b 3 to 3 inches loiig. All Canada and south to nUnob. Yellow Birch, or Gray Birch (Betula lutea) A forest tree, of 31 feet in height. Bark obviously birch, but shaggy and " uuli yellow. Wood as in the others, but reddish, A cubic foot weighs 4 1 lbs. Leaves 3 to 4 inches long. Mumesota to Newfoundland and south to Virginia. Iionwood, Hard-hack, Leverwood, B«etle-wood, or Hop Hornbeam (Ostyra Virginiana) A small tr • 20 to 30, rarely 50, feet high; named for its hardne ^ a U : - hopUke fruit. Bark furrowed. Wood tough, cl e "iiin ; iisplittable. One of the strongest, heaviest, a. dVrdetsL of iunbers. A cubic foot weighs over 51 lbs. T .U. : it cciT.es lear to Shagbark Hickory m weight and perha^.r .'•xi beyc d i. in strength and h a r dnewa. Leaves