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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



WESTERN RED CEDAR IN CALIFORNIA. 

 IS KNOWN ALSO AS SHINGLE WOOD AND 

 IS NOTED FOR ITS FRAGRANCE 



There is our eastern red cedar or 

 juniper, the western red or shingle 

 cedar, the northern and southern 

 white cedars, the yellow cedars or 

 cypresses, the incense cedar, the true 

 cypresses, the deodar, the atlas cedar, 

 the Clanwilliam cedar and the fam- 

 ous cedar of Lebanon. They are 

 among our most valued woods not 

 only because of their fragrance but 

 also because of their excellent work- 

 ing qualities and their great resist- 

 ance to decay and to insect pests. 

 The Spanish or cigar box cedar, 

 known locally as cedro, is not a co- 



niferous wood but belongs to the 

 mahogany family. In fact it finds its 

 way into the market as mahogany and 

 may not be readily distinguished from 

 that wood except by its odor. Other 

 aromatic woods of this family are 

 the toon or Indian red cedar, the ca- 



LARGE WESTERN RED CEDAR. ON STAN- 

 ISLAUS NATIONAL FOREST, CALIFORNIA 



Photo-micrograph by S. J. Record. 



CROSS SECTION OF RED CEDAR UVNI- 

 PERUS VIRCINIANA) SHOWS THE RESIN 

 CELLS IN ZONES THROUGHOUT THE 

 GROWTH RING. IT IS IN THESE CELLS 

 AND THE CELLS OF RAYS THAT THE 

 RESIN IS FOUND WHICH GIVES THE 

 PECULIAR ODOR TO CEDAR WOOD AND 

 ADDS TO ITS DURABILITY 



lantas of the Philippines, the margosa 

 or neem of India, and the bead-tree, 

 Persian lilac or white cedar of Aus- 

 tralia. Here, too, may be classed the 

 Australian rosewood with its scent of 

 cedar rather than of rose. 



The Borneo cedar or seriah belongs 

 to the dipterocarp family from which 

 our so-called Philippine mahogany 

 comes. In British Guiana are two 

 woods, the yellow silverbally and the 

 kretty, with cedar-like odor, though 

 they belong to the sassafras family 

 and are closely related to the green- 

 heart used so extensively in building 

 the Panama Canal. The narra of the 

 Philippines and the Malay Peninsula, 

 a wood of the locust family, has a 



faint sweet odor when fresh. Just 

 as these woods are commonly called 

 cedar because of their odor so other 

 woods without odor are sometimes 

 called by the same name because of 

 their resemblance, fancied or other- 

 wise, to the woods that smell like 

 cedar. The writer has in his pos- 

 session a cigar box made of "Michi- 

 gan cedar" which in reality is eim. 

 A certain natural similarity in grain 

 with a touch of color added produces 

 a passable substitute for Spanish 

 cedar for a not too discriminating 



LARGE WHITE CEDAR. FRAGRANT AND 

 ALMOST IMPERVIOUS TO INSECT ATTACK 



trade. Certain South American 

 woods are called cedro though they 

 have only the slightest resemblance 

 to the real cedar. Other woods such 

 as yellow poplar and basswood, 

 which have neither odor nor grain, 

 may be printed in the color and 

 figure of Spanish cedar or they may 



