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An evergreen tree, fifteen to thirty feet high (much 

 larger at the South), usually pyramid-shaped, with a 

 rounded base, but varying very greatly, especially near 

 the coast, where it is often twisted and flattened into 

 angular and weird forms. The wood is very valuable, 

 light, straight-grained, durable, fragrant. It is largely 

 used for posts, for cabinet-work, for interior finish, and 

 almost exclusively in the making of lead pencils. The 

 heart-wood is usually a dull red (whence the name), the 

 sap-wood white. 



Among the most picturesque objects in a Turkish 

 landscape, standing like sentinels, singly or in groups, 

 and as slender and upright as a Lombardy Poplar, are 

 the black cypress trees (C. sempervirens). They mark 

 the sites of graves, often of those which have long since 

 disappeared. In America, more than any other northern 

 tree, the red cedar gives the same sombre effect, whether 

 growing wild or planted in cemeteries. 



The Common Juniper (J. communis, L.), common as 

 a shrub, is occasionally found in tree form, low, with 

 spreading or drooping branches, and with leaves re- 

 sembling those of a young Red Cedar, awl-shaped and 

 spreading, but arranged in threes instead of opposite. 



