{"id":38532,"date":"2019-12-05T17:41:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T17:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38532"},"modified":"2019-12-05T17:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T17:41:40","slug":"nature-three-spruces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/nature-three-spruces\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature: three spruces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about spruce on the East Coast: the tutor recalls&#8230;.<\/h2>\n<p>\nLiving in the Atlantic provinces as a kid, I encountered three spruces: white, black, and red.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhite and black spruce thrive below the tree line. They are hardy species that live in areas with short growing season and poor soil. The white typically gets bigger, while perhaps the black can look a little more ragged. The black grows in boggier settings.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Canada, the red spruce is confined to the Acadian forest: Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick, and perhaps southeastern Quebec and Ontario. Therefore, it seems to prefer better soil and warmer temperatures than the black or white spruce.<\/p>\n<p>Where I lived, the red spruce was rare, but I know of at least one. It stood at the end of a path in the woods that led &#8220;nowhere&#8221; except to that tree. Near a red spruce, you can sense there is something different and special about it; I wonder if neighborhood kids, sensing as much, walked that path to that one.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macphailwoods.org\/forestry\/the-acadian-forest\/\">macphailwoods.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nBrockman and Merrilees. <em>Trees of North America: A Field Guide to Identification<\/em>. New York: Golden Press, 1968.<\/p> \n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about spruce on the East Coast: the tutor recalls&#8230;. Living in the Atlantic provinces as a kid, I encountered three spruces: white, black, and red. White and black spruce thrive below the tree line. They are hardy species that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/nature-three-spruces\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nature: three spruces<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2949],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38533,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38532\/revisions\/38533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}