If he is a trapper orspruce gummer the winter is his harvest time.
This we make of straight spruce poles about four or five inches thick.
It was designed for the use of the spruce gum hunters, its short length making it a perfect snowshoe for use in gumming, walking around trees, turning and zigzagging here and there.
In the forest itself we find straight spruce trees, both large and small, balsam, and a few white birches, the loose bark of which will make the best kindling known.
If it were early summer when the bark could be peeled from cedar and spruce trees we would have no trouble, but bark is not available now.
With the crosscut saw we can throw the straight spruce trees almost anywhere we want them, and we drop them in places which will be convenient and save much handling.
Then, after we have made it as tight as possible by nailing we will gather a small quantity of spruce gum and run it into the cracks from the inside by means of a hot iron, in much the same way that we would solder tin plate.
The twigs are stouter than those of the hemlock, resembling the spruce twigs in size, but they lack horny little leaf brackets which are so prominent on spruce twigs.
The leaves are mounted on brackets, just as the spruce leaves are, but the brackets are much smaller, to match the daintier twigs and leaves.
This is very different from a spruce whose leaves stand out all around the twigs.
One reason thatspruce trees make poor Christmas trees is that the leaves fall so soon.
Spruce wood and poplar are among the cheap woods which have come into demand at the paper mills.
She moved over beside the broken stove, and stood, match in hand, ready to set fire to the pile of dry spruce tips.
In keen exultation he ran forward, expecting to find his enemy stretched on the spruce needles.
It was a comfortable picture, framed as in a narrow panel by the dark uprights of the spruce on either side of the mossy road.
With ears laid flat to the skull, lips curled up from his long white teeth, and half-open eyes flaming green, he glared at the spruce thicket whence that menacing scent came to his nostrils.
But his most minute search could discover no trail save here and there a light disturbance of the spruce needles.
A few moments more and a sparkle of sunlight flashed into his eyes, and through the screening spruce branches he caught sight of the quiet water.
Along the left of the field the dark spruce woods came down close to the zigzag snake fence of split rails which bounded Hatch's clearing.
Noiselessly she gathered those few handfuls of withered spruce twigs and heaped them upon the top of the stove.
Going noiselessly as a cat in his cowhide larrigans, Brannigan made his way down the narrow trail between the stiff dark ranks of the spruce timber toward the lake.
And just as the bear reached the place where she had been standing, the spruce tips sparked sharply and flared up in his face.
But between this bleak, wind-harried front and the rich plain country by the sea were many lesser pinnacles and ridges, with deep ravines between, all clothed with dark spruce woods and tangled undergrowth.
She fed them with a few more scraps of spruce scraped up from another bunk, till she saw that they would surely catch.
I chose a camping-ground on the brink of one of the lakes where a thicket of Hemlock Spruce sheltered me from the night wind.
The discoverer was the Douglas for whom the noble Douglas Spruce is named, and many other plants which will keep his memory sweet and fresh as long as trees and flowers are loved.
Once, while I was seated at the foot of a Hemlock Spruce in one of the most inaccessible of the San Joaquin yosemites engaged in sketching, a reckless fellow came up behind me, passed under my bended arm, and jumped on my paper.
This vigorous spruce is ever beautiful, welcoming the mountain winds and the snow as well as the mellow summer light, and maintaining its youthful freshness undiminished from century to century through a thousand storms.
Those of the Hemlock Spruce are the most beautiful of all, forming little conelets of blue flowers, each on a slender stem.
Hampton—the spruce carriage-driver (as coachmen were named then) of Mr. Spencer D.
Two tall Christmas-trees and three wagon-loads of running cedar, pine, and spruce heaped the floor, and were pushed aside hastily by the servants to make way for the mournful procession.
The spruce fir, according to the same authority, nourishes one hundred and fourteen species, and the oak not less than two hundred.
A gentleman and lady took the walk yesterday afternoon from Boothbay over the Indian Trail to Spruce Point, where I met them late in the afternoon.
Some of it was dry, for it was under the low-lying branches of spruce and hemlock trees, and the snow had been kept from it.
Now, my spruce companions, is all ready, and all things neat?
Then they put the spruce branches into these holes and left them there to soak.
Then they dug spruce roots with sharp digging sticks.
She would hunt for bright and shining playthings, which she strung on spruce root or a kind of tough grass.
If there are spruce trees in the vicinity, carry out the suggestions given in this lesson.
See if you can find hardened sap on a spruce tree.
So they cut and folded the bark, then sewed the folds withspruce root.
How the Women Made Splints for Baskets After the spruce branches had soaked a few days, the women brought them to the cave.
If there are any spruce trees near you, find out what they are good for.
The sap of thespruce trees was beginning to flow and had hardened in places upon the trunks.
What the Women Got from the Spruce Trees All the snow was now gone from the wooded hills.
They broke off slender branches from the spruce trees and trimmed them and laid them in bundles.
So Firekeeper raked out the fire with a branch of spruce wood and waited for the smoke to go out.
True, the scurvy seized several of them, but proved harmless to those who obeyed the orders and took plentiful potations of spruce beer.
Cynthia Ann Flemming, who lived on the other side of the spruce hedge, now came hurrying over.
Where it ran into the spruce grove was a tiny gate which Miss Corona had always kept in good repair, albeit it was never used.
Down in the little northern valley below the spruce grove lived her uncle, Alexis Gordon.
It would, no doubt, succeed if the pillar were protected during winter by fastening around it a covering of pine or spruce boughs.
At first it runs over hilly ground and through an oak-wooded country, then through thick forests of spruce trees, the trees standing very close together.
Bjönn was barking at some close-grown spruce copse.
A marten sat well hidden in a spruce tree close by, his eyes shining like raindrops among the needles.
In there amongst the sprucebushes some thin, grey tree trunks seemed to move once in a while.
One cleft hoof splashes into a tiny pool of water, the other crushes a small spruce which has been ages about sprouting in the shallow soil, and might have grown to be a big tree.
Some rough boughs with brown bark, just like a small bush, moved amongst the spruce needles.
If now he should lie like that under a spruce tree between Morsæter and Spænde Lake, it would be anything but funny, No one would find him, for who could know the ways of the Lynx?
Farther up the slope Hans and Gaupa sat under a spruce tree, the lower branches of which touched the earth.
An enormous spruce fell down, a giant of the forest which stood at his post and fell there like a faithful veteran.
How in all the world did he happen to lie on his back between that stump and the spruce tree?
Then he disappeared in the darkness; there was a sound of rustling among the spruce branches, and then the brook was once more the only living thing Gaupa could hear or see.
He was quivering, wide awake; for the cow who was peeping at them curiously from behind a crooked spruce was his.
It would be better to crawl back to his bed of last night than risk a sick-bed under a spruce tree.
Only the silver bark of a birch gleamed faintly among the dense spruce woods.
When he came to the spruce where he was sitting now he heard Bjönn’s last bark, and understood from it that the elk was not running, for the barking sounded so feeble.
You know, John, that lone spruce on the end of Birch Pint?
Beside it grew a large spruce, whose top reached to its lower limbs, and next to the spruce a scrub hemlock, whose lower limbs came almost to the ground.
You could step from the ground to the hemlock, from that to the spruce, and from the sprucewalk on the bridge to the pine.
The frame of the traveler is made of poplar, spruce or soft pine, 1/4 in.
This material should be well-seasoned white pine orspruce and coated with shellac.
At the bottom, under the spruce bushes, was a curé in plaster reading his breviary.
Her grandfather had arranged for twenty acres of black spruce to be cut this fall, and Luke Dobson wanted to know if the work was to be carried through, or what was to be done in the matter.
Her grandfather’s black spruce would not be worth the trouble of lumbering if a forest fire happened along that way.
She had left the great open space where the black spruce had been lumbered last winter, and had plunged into a dense forest of mighty beech trees.
He was sufficiently straightforward to say that black spruce was going up in price, and he was willing to make a small advance on his first offer, if Pam was able to do business with him.
Sophy had told her that black sprucewas valuable because it was so largely used for pulp for paper-making.
There were big trees here, spruce and birch and maple, and to walk in their shade on this glowing summer morning was like being in some vast cathedral.
Chapter II The Cabin in the Clearing Though a spur of black, uncompromising spruce woods gave it near shelter on the north, the harshly naked clearing fell away from it on the other three sides, and left the cabin bleak.
This had been the barn,--this, with a battered lean-to of poles and interwoven spruce boughs against its southerly wall.
Dave knelt in the stern, paddle in hand, and the long pole of white spruce sticking out behind the canoe, where he could lay his grasp upon it in an instant.
In the corner farthest from the chimney, over against the partition, was a shallow sleeping bunk, a mere oblong box partly filled with dry red pickings of spruce and hemlock.
Only the pair of crows which, seeing great opportunities about the reoccupied clearing, had taken up their dwelling in the top of a tall spruce close behind the cabin, held suspiciously aloof from Miranda.
He found the sprucepickings scratched up toward one end, and arranged as they would be for no human occupant.
After a time we entered a dense growth of spruce which covered a slight depression in the table of the mountain.
The voice as of a young jay, tender and appealing, came out of a Norway spruce near by.
The low, stunted growth of spruce and fir which clothes the top of Slide has been cut away over a small space on the highest point, laying open the view on nearly all sides.
Everywhere a stunted growth of yellow birch, mountain-ash, and spruce and fir opposed our progress.
The dark forms of the spruce were clinging to the edge of it, as if reaching out to their fellows to save them.
It was made of the thin bark of spruceand balsam, and was full of hollows and depressions.
After amusing ourselves by repeatedly springing his tail and receiving the quills in a rotten stick, we made a slip-noose out of a spruce root, and, after much manoeuvring, got it over his head and led him forth.
The mane of spruce and balsam fir was stripped away for many hundred feet, leaving a long gray streak visible from afar.
Presently the birds left the apple-bough that nearly brushed my window, and, with a dozen or more of their fellows that I had not seen, settled in a Norway spruce a few yards away, and began to feed upon the buds.
The quiet and repose of this spruce grove proved to be the calm that goes before the storm.
But they made such havoc with the spruce buds that after a while I began to fear not a bud would be left upon the trees; the spruces would be checked in their growth the next year.
When the French first settled on the banks of the river St. Lawrence, they were stinted by the intendant, Monsieur Picard, to a can of spruce beer a day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spruce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
