SCENTED WOODS 



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be covered with 

 printed paper. 

 Cedar is used 

 for cigar boxes 

 because the 

 aroma of the 

 wood is sup- 

 posed to add 

 to the bouquet 

 of a cigar and 

 the trade cus- 

 t o m requires 

 that cigar box- 

 es at least ap- 

 pear to be made 

 of cedar. 



Cedar is used 

 in various 

 forms for re- 

 pelling insects. 

 The chips from 

 pencil factories 

 are distilled for 

 their oil or ground up and sold for use in protecting rugs 

 and woolen garments from moths. Chests made of Ten- 

 nessee red cedar and also of Spanish cedar are widely 



but it takes 

 more than a 

 smell of cedar 

 to keep the 

 eggs, once laid, 

 from hatching 

 or the larvae 

 from pursuing 

 their destruc- 

 tive feeding. 

 Cedar chests 

 are usually well 

 made with tight 

 fitting covers 

 and if articles 

 are free of 

 moths and eggs 

 when they are 

 placed therein 

 they will not 

 suffer attack. 

 About five per 

 cent of the pro- 

 tection afforded by a cedar chest is due to the odor and 

 the other 95 per cent to the fact that it is physically 

 exclusive. 



We can pass by easy stages from the cedar odors to 

 those of sassafras and camphor of the laurel family. The 

 santol and melasantol and the tucung-calao of the 

 Philippines belong to the mahogany or Spanish cedar 



Photograph by H. M. Curran. 



RAFT OF CEDRO LOGS ON THE PARANA RIVER. ARGENTINA. THIS IS THE SPANISH 

 OR CIGAR BOX CEDAR AND BELONGS TO THE MAHOGANY FAMILY 



Photograph by G. E. Mitchell. 



CEDAR OF LEBANON A GIANT OF THE GROVE WHICH HAS 

 LOOKED WITH TOLERANCE ON THE RISE AND FALL OF 

 THE POWERFUL OF THE EARTH 



advertised and used for protection of furs and woolens 

 from moths. Their efficiency is limited, however, and 

 too much faith should not be placed in them. Adult 

 moths are repelled by the odor if it is strong enough, 



A TWENTY-TWO YEAR OLD CAMPHOR TREE AT ORANGE CITY, 

 FLORIDA, SHOWING CHARACTERISTIC DEVELOPMENT WHEN- 

 GROWN IN THE OPEN 



family and have a more or less pungent aromatic odor 

 resembling both cedar and camphor. Two leguminous 

 woods widely distributed in South America are much 

 alike in every way except that one is a rich red and the 

 other brown. They are variously known in Brazil as 

 cabriuva, oleo vermelhbo and oleo pardo, and in Colombia 

 and Peru as balsamo, and have an aromatic fragrance 

 suggesting a combination of cedar, camphor and chloro- 

 form. One feels the desire to inhale deeply when smell- 

 ing these woods. 



