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evidence offered by photography. That is what we offer 

 them in our frontispiece. If they are not satisfied with 

 that we will send them pressed specimens on demand. 

 Two photographs were taken ; one of a small branch and 

 one of a branchlet. The former was the more artistic and 

 beautiful, and showed the exquisite curve taken by the 

 drooping spray at the ends of the branches, especially at 

 the top of the tree ; the other was adopted for the illustra- 

 tion as better showing the characteristic cones and leaves, 

 possibly even the little tubercles on the fiat leaves may be 

 made out with a pocket lens. 



Be it known, then, that this station of the swamp white 

 cedar is in Hillsborough County, N. H., about 25 miles 

 north of the Massachusetts line and nearly 50 miles west 

 from the New Hampshire seacoast. Compilers of lists and 

 manuals will please take due notice hereof and govern 

 themselves accordingly. 



There is said to be a rhododendron swamp also in Hop- 

 kinton, several miles further north. Will not some ob- 

 server in that vicinity institute a search there for the 

 swamp cedar also ? The ecological conditions being in all 

 probability very similar to those in the Manchester swamp 

 it would not be surprising if the tree in question should 

 be in hiding there also. 



The swamp white cedar in its native home is the hand- 

 somest of our cedars. It is described by Dame and Brooks 

 as " forming a conical head, often of great elegance and 

 lightness." These authorities also say, "it is valued 

 chiefly in landscape planting for covering low and boggy 

 places where other trees do not succeed so well." 



The other cedars growing wild in New Hampshire are 

 the arbor vitse ( Thuja occidentalis) and the red cedar 

 {Juniperus Virginiana) . The arbor vitae is common in 

 swamps north of the White Mountains, but rare to the 

 south of them. It is largely employed, as everyone knows, 



