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flat leafage is distinctive. Wood pale, weak, soft, perish- 

 able. A cubic foot weighs 24 lbs. N. Alberta to Newf. 

 and south to Va. 



Balsam 



Bald Cypress {Taxodium distichum) 



A fine forest tree, up to 150 feet, with thin leaves some- 

 what like those of Hemlock, 

 half an inch to an inch long; 

 cones rounded about an inch 

 through. Sheds its leaves 

 each fall so is *'bald" in win- 

 ter, noted for the knees or up- 

 bent roots that it develops 

 when growing in water. Tim- 

 ber soft, weak, but durable 

 and valuable; a cubic foot 

 weighs 27 lbs. In low wet 

 country of Mississippi Valley & S. E. coast. 



Arbor- ViT^ or White Cedar {Thuya occidentalis) 



Evergreen; 50 to 60 feet high. Wood soft, brittle, 

 coarse-grained, extremely durable as posts; fragrant and 



