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high, and has light, soft, but very durable wood 

 especially adapted to withstand extremes of heat 

 and moisture when in contact with the ground. 



White Cedar. The white cedar is similar in some 

 Chamascyparis respects to the foregoing species, but 



Chamcecyparis certam differences are well marked, 



thyoides. enough to prevent a confusion of the 

 two trees. The white cedar grows in a 

 symmetrical conelike figure, with a gen- 

 eral color effect of warm, light brown- 

 ish green ; arbor vitge is usually much 

 greener. The leaf spray of this tree 

 is less broad and flat than that of 

 the foregoing species ; perhaps I 

 might also call it less heavy and 

 coarse. The tiny cone is scarcely 

 one third of an inch in diameter, 

 and has about six scales, which do 

 not open to the base of the cone 

 but at a wide angle with its axis ; 

 the scales are thick and pointed or bossed in the 

 middle. 



The white cedar is found from southern Maine 

 through the Atlantic States to Florida, also along 

 the Gulf to Mississippi, and generally inhabits cold 

 swamps. It grows from 30 to 90 feet high ; its 

 durable though soft white wood is used in boat- 



