WHITE CEDAR (Juniper) 



(Ghamaccyparis thyoidcs B. S. P.) 



EXCLUSIVELY a tree of the Coastal Plain, it is 

 found in year-round swamps from New England 

 {southward to Florida and Mississippi. It occurs 

 with bald cypress and deep swamp hardwoods, but 

 more often is found in pure stands called ''glades," 

 Avhere the smooth, clean trunks are so closely set as 

 to give the impression of "serried ranks." The 



WHITE CEDAR 

 One-half natural size. 



branches are very short and horizontal, so that even 

 w^hen grown in the open the tree has a long, narrow, 

 conical shape. 



The leaves are minute, scale-like, overlapping, 4- 

 ranked, of a bluish green color, and entirely cover 

 the ends of the slender, drooping twigs. The fruit 

 is a rather inconspicuous, smooth cone, nearly 

 round, about one-fourth inch in diameter, maturing 

 in one year and containing from four to eight 

 winged seeds. 



The bark is quite thin, varies in color from ashy 

 gray to light reddish brown, and readily separates 

 into loose plate-like scales, Avhich easily peel off in 

 long fibrous strips. The wood is light, soft, close- 

 grained, slightly fragrant, especially in contact with 

 water. These qualities make it in demand for boat 

 and canoe building, cooperage, shingles and fence 

 posts. It is being substituted for chestnut for tele- 

 phone poles, as the supply of the latter species be- 

 comes scarcer. Because of the limited supply avail- 

 able, its lumber is not well known in the general 

 markets. 



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