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SYLVA AMERICANA. 



dressing of suppurating wounds. By boiling the leaves three 

 hours in water they afford a fine durable cinnamon color. This 

 wood is extensively employed for building wherever it abounds. 

 Of whatever materials the building is constructed, the roof is 

 universally covered with cypress shingles, which, if made of trees 

 felled in the winter, last forty years. Cypress boards are 

 preferred to those of pine for the inside of brick houses, and for 

 window sashes, and the panels of doors exposed to the weather : 

 cabinet makers also choose it for the inside of mahogany furniture. 

 It is highly proper for the masts and sides of vessels, and wherever 

 it grows it is chosen for canoes, which are fashioned from a single 

 trunk, and are often 30 feet long and 5 feet wide, light, solid and 

 more durable than those of any other tree. It makes the best pipes 

 to convey water under ground ; especially the black variety, 

 which is moreresinous and solid. 



White Cedar. Cupressus thyoides. 



Among the resinous trees 

 of the United States, the 

 White Cedar is one of the 

 most interesting for the 

 varied utility of its wood. 

 North of the river Connec- 

 ticut it is rare and little 

 employed in the arts. In 

 the Southern States it is not 

 met with beyond the river 

 Santee, but it is found, though 

 not abundantly, on the Sa- 

 vannah : it is multiplied only 

 within these limits and to 

 the distance of 50 miles 

 from the ocean. At New 

 York, New Jersey and Penn- 

 sylvania, it is known by the name of White Cedar, and in 

 Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, by that of Juniper. We 



plate xxv. 



Fig. 1 A leaf. Fig. 2. A cone. 



