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388 Woodcraft Manual for Boys the hardest vegetable growth in our woods. Wisconsin to Nova Scotia and south on the mountains to Georgia. Balsam Tree, or Canada Balsam {Ahies bakamea) Evergreen; famous for the blisters on its trunk, yielding Canada bal^im which makes a woodman's plaster for cuts or a waterproof cement; and for the exquisite odor of its boughs, which also siq>ply the woodman's ideal hed. Its fiat leafage is distinctive. Wood pale, weak, soft, perishable. A cubic foot weighs 34 lbs. New Alberta to Newfoundland and south to Virginia.