HEMLOCK (Tsuga Canadensis, Carr.). 60 to 100 feet. Tapering, pyramidal tree, with slender, horizontal branches, drooping, and ending in feathery spray. Bark thin, scaly, cinnamon-red to gray. Wood light, soft, coarse-grained, reddish brown, used in bbilding, and for railroad ties. Bark used in tanning leather, and dyeing. Leaves to inch long, flat, blunt or notched at tip, pale and ridged beneath, shining, dark green above, on minute petioles, spiral on twig, but twisted to seem 6-ranked, falling off the third season, leaving bare twigs rough with persistent, horny leaf-bases. Flowers
in May: staminate globular, lateral, solitary; pistillate con ical, terminal, purple, with thin scales overlapping. Fruits pendent, brown, thin-scaled cones, on downy stalks, opening during the first winter, letting fall the winged seeds. Dist.: Nova Scotia tcY southern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; south along mountains to Alabama. Favorite ornamental tree.