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to the Gulf States, and from the Atlantic to the mountains that 
border the Pacific States. Between the Sierras and the Wahsatch 
Mountains it occurs at an elevation of from 5000 to 7000 feet above 
sea level, and is there a small tree, usually not over a dozen feet high 
and of low, compact form.” Under the most favourable conditions 
however, it has been met with 120 feet high with a diameter of 3 
feet (see “Forest Planting Leaflet,” Circular 73, U.S. Dept. of 
_ Juniperus procera, Hochst.—Kast African Cedar. 
Some notice has been taken of this tree of late as a likely substi- 
tute for the wood of J/. virginiana for pencil making, and an account 
of the timber as received in Liverpool from Usambara, German 
Kast Africa, is to be found in K.B., No. 2., 1913, p. 82. The 
wood is described as having a fine, straight and almost even grain, a 
beautiful dark-red colour, an even texture, a fragrant cedar-like 
odour, and as being brittle, non-resinous, of light weight and nearly 
as soft as red cedar. 
Callitris arborea, Schrad.— Clanwilliam Cedar, Cedarboom. 
Widdringtonia juniperoides, Endl. 
a a more connected and much larger area than it does now.” 
ifty or sixty years ago the tree was more plentiful than at 
present and larger trees existed. The forests have, however, been 
depleted by lumber-men and by fires. Formerly trees were known 
