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adapted for wind breakers, if not for live hedges on dry, hard 

 lands. 



Juniperus pachypliylcBa, thick bark cedar, is the best species 

 of the red cedar I ever met with. I found this tree growing 

 in the spurs of the White mountains of New Mexico, at an 

 elevation of about 10,000 feet. Could it be introduced, it 

 would be not only a decided curiosity, but a worthy acquisi- 

 tion to our list of evergreens. The coriaceous bark is cracked 

 and seamed into cubical forms of two inches. The fibrous 

 exfoliation of the other j\inipers is entirely wanting in this 

 tree. The trees were growing among the Engleman pines, 

 with smooth straight trunks, often thirty feet to a limb, clear 

 of knots and three feet thick. The wood is close and compact, 

 of a rich mahogany color, otherwise it resembles the wood of 

 our red cedar, Juniperus Virginiana. From its habitat, where 

 I saw it, I should think it would thrive in Wisconsin. 



