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THE CUBA REVIEW 



A Cigar Box Cedar Tree, Showing Character of Barlv. 



CIGAR BOX CEDAR 



By C. H. Pearson 



Of the many important timber trees native to Cuba the cigar box or Spanish cedar is at 

 present of greatest ccmmercial importance. The tree is known locally by the Spanish-speaking 

 people as cedro, cedro macho, cedro de ramazon, cedro dulce and cedro hembra. In the trade it is 

 known also as West Indian or tropical American cedar, because it is indigenous to all the 

 islands of the West Indies and to the mainland from southern Mexico southward to Brazil. 

 Owing to its extensive natural range of growth there seems to be a pronounced tendency in the 



