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bargain probably he did. For the wood that 

 he bought from the Garden Committee was 

 not the cedar wood from which the old drawing 

 pencils were made, so pleasant to hold and so 

 easy to cut, though no doubt the timber- 

 merchant thought it was. The " cedar-pencil " 

 tree is not a cedar at all, but a great juniper, 

 growing in Barbadoes. The timber from cedars 

 grown in England seems to be of little value. 



