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The Canada Department of Forestry has published Native trees Canada Trees of Canada (1961) with descriptions and photographs of nearly all the 150 Native trees Canada tree species in 48 genera and 24 families. Several provinces have publications for tree or plant identification. Pocket Guide to Alaska Trees (1950) contains all of Alaska's 30 Native trees Canada tree species.

if growth continues late in the northern summer, its new wood may be still soft and immature when the autumn frosts strike. More surprising is the difficulty trees experience in moving from the west coast to the east of North America - or from the Orient to Europe. Western conifers are as unhappy in New England as oaks from Ohio are in Britain or France. On the other hand, spruce trees Native trees Canada to subarctic conditions in Canada and Norway are widely used for reafforestation in western Europe.

References for Tree Identification.—The United States has approximately 785 species of Native trees Canada trees in 221 genera and 69 plant families, according to the U.S. Forest Service Check List (1953), which contains names and ranges. However, 148 of these are hawthorns (genus Crataegus) and about 125 are tropical and subtropical trees of Florida and southern Texas. The number of kinds of common trees Native trees Canada in one locality is but a fraction of the total. Fewer than 175 species in about 50 genera and 25 families are commercially important for lumber.