The spruce and fir trees crowded to the track on each side to welcome us, the arbor-vitæ with its changing leaves prompted us to make haste, and the sight of the canoe-birch gave us spirits to do so. ❋ Various (N/A)
Joe peeled a canoe-birch for bark for his hunting-horn. ❋ Various (N/A)
The children thought this very interesting, and they wished that there were canoe-birch trees growing at Elmridge, that they might be enabled to try the experiment for themselves. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)
The white-birch, paper-birch, canoe-birch, grows large in moist spots near the stream where it is needed. ❋ Various (N/A)
Finland mothers make for their children of the leaves of the canoe-birch. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)
No doubt there is good canoe-birch on the river-banks, but something more durable is needed. ❋ Caroline C. Leighton (N/A)
The first golden tints were ripening in the canoe-birch leaves, and the tremulous whisper of autumn was in the rustle of the aspen trees. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)
The canoe-birch yields you its vestments with the utmost liberality. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
One, perhaps, takes canoe-birch bark, always at hand, and dead dry wood or bark, and kindles a fire five or six feet in front of where we intend to lie. ❋ Unknown (1858)
I measured the largest canoe-birch which I saw in this journey near the end of the carry. ❋ Unknown (1858)
Rambling about the woods at this camp, I noticed thatthey consisted chiefly of firs, black spruce, and some white, red maple, canoe-birch, and, along the river, the hoary alder, Alnus incana. ❋ Unknown (1858)
We took out our bags, and the Indian made a fire under a very large bleached log, using white-pine bark from a stump, though he said that hemlock was better, and kindling with canoe-birch bark. ❋ Unknown (1858)
The prevailing trees were spruce (commonly black), arbor-vitae, canoe-birch, (black ash and elms beginning to appear,) yellow birch, red maple, and a little hemlock skulking in the forest. ❋ Unknown (1858)
Betula papyracea (canoe-birch), prevailing everywhere and about Bangor. ❋ Unknown (1858)
The Indian proceeded at once to cut a canoe-birch, slanted it up against another tree on the shore, tying it with a withe, and lay down to sleep in its shade. ❋ Unknown (1858)
The spruce and fir trees crowded to the track on each side to welcome us, the arbor-vitae, with its changing leaves, prompted us to make haste, and the sight of the canoe-birch gave us spirits to do so. ❋ Unknown (1858)
I asked the Indian to make us a sugar-bowl of birch-bark, which he did, using the great knife which dangled in a sheath from his belt; but the bark broke at the corners when he bent it up, and he said it was not good; that there was a great difference in this respect between the bark of one canoe-birch and that of another, i.e. one cracked more easily than another. ❋ Unknown (1858)
At one place, where we landed to pick up a summer duck, which my companion had shot, Joe peeled a canoe-birch for bark for his hunting-horn. ❋ Unknown (1858)
It was a dead part, more than a foot in diameter, of a large canoe-birch, which branched at the ground. ❋ Unknown (1858)
Just then other matters occupied them, and they had only glanced, first at the canoe-birch and then at the other tree which Norman had pointed out. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
