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district ; but, so far as I have hitherto seen, 

 has been preserved in cool greenhouses in 

 the winter. 



3. J. VIRGINIANA, Linnceus. Leaves in 

 threes, fastened at the base; the younger 

 ones imbricate, the older spreading. Berries 

 roundish. Eed cedar. 



A well-known and useful evergreen, often 

 growing thirty or forty feet high. It varies 

 so much from seed, that to describe its habits 

 of growth, would be to particularize each 

 individual tree. Sometimes compact, some- 

 times very loose; in one case erect and stiff, 

 in another gracefully pendent. In some 

 places, we see them broadly round-headed, 

 in others spiry and conical. The handsomest 

 young specimen I have ever seen is in Mr. 

 Beckett's (formerly Buonaparte's) grounds, 

 at Bordentown; and with the finest trunk, on 

 the grounds of Mr. Cope. The red cedar 

 thrives in any dry loose soil that is not too 

 rich, but seems to do best in a light cool 

 loam. 



It is readily propagated like No. 1. 



