1SERS OF COMMERCE 



.r:RN WHITE CEDAR. Thuya 

 gigantea. Mull. 



Mr XVI. FIG. 140. 



T. Men/iesii, Dougl. 

 in Red Cedar : Giant Arbor- Vitae : 

 >or-Vitae (100) : Giant 

 ! -tern Red Cedar : Pacific 



- am! Canada. 



Kecorded dry-weight iqJ-26J Ibs. per 



Grade , com ';ite Pine. Smell agree- 



nd spicy .^ntly terebin- 



rather badly, embers soon die out in still air : pro- 



;oky flame and a slightly tarry smell. Solution with 



<r of the wood : with alcohol faint brown, and dar- 



^flftteMipon addition of potash with a ppt. 



Gr Surface of the Spring wood 



dull of the . ily lustrous. 



little, ve'ry durable in contact with 



soil " (100). " On nest trees of Western America " (66). 



For "shingles is unv v any other wood . . . well adapted 



for intt nor finishin: . . . telegraph-poles, fence-posts 



and the immense canoes made by the West Coast Indians" (65). 

 " Cabinet -making, doors, posts : shingles 22 in. wide and split 

 boards 12-15 m - wide bv 12 ft. long wer^ shown at the Chicago 

 Exhibition " (2). " Of wonderful durability " (49). 



Authorities. Macoun (66), p. 460. Ditto (65)^.30. Ander- 



son (2), p. 10. Sargent (100), p. 177. Hough (49), pt. ix. p. 45. 



Colour. Uniform brownish to reddish. " light brown, turn- 



ing darker with exposure : the thin sap-wood nearly white ' ' 



(100). 



Anatomic d Characters. As those of Callitris arborea 

 IF a small strip of this wood be taken and bent in the direc' 



ate at the outer bounda 

 . to be brilliantly lustrous like satin. 

 mthenticated by Hough. 



No. 231. NEW ZEALAND CEDAR. Libocedrus 



Bidwilli. Hook. 

 PLATE XVI. FIG. i 



! 



*' ames. Kawhaka (A.G.) : (also applied to L. doni- 

 (61). IV 

 260 



