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Great Britain where it has been tried, even as far north as 

 Aberdeen, where, as in many other places, it is found 

 hardier than the Cedar of Lebanon. It is readily propa- 

 gated by seeds, which preserve their vitality when imported 

 in the cones. It also grows freely by cuttings, which appeal 

 to make as handsome free-growing plants as those raised 

 from seed." The soil and culture for this tree are pre- 

 cisely those for the Cedar of Lebanon. 



THE RED CEDAR TREE. Juniperus. 



Nat. Ord. Coniferse. Lin. Syst. Dioecia, Monadelphia. 



The Red Cedar is a very common tree, indigenous to 

 this country, and growing in considerable abundance from 

 Maine to Florida ; but thriving with the greatest luxuriance 

 in the sea-board states. When fully grown, the Red Cedar 

 is about 40 feet in height, and little more than a foot ir, 

 diameter. The leaves are very small, composed of minute 

 scales, and lie pretty close to the branches. Small blue 

 berries, borne thickly upon the branches of the female trees 

 in autumn and winter, contain the seeds. These are 

 covered with a whitish exudation, and are sometimes used, 

 like those of the foreign juniper, in the manufacture of gin. 



The Red Cedar has less to recommend it to the eye than 

 most of the evergreens which we have already described. 

 The color of the foliage is dull and dingy at many seasons, 

 and the form of the young tree is too compactly conical to 

 please generally. When old, however, we have seen it 

 throw off this formality, and become an interesting, and 

 'ndeed a picturesque tree. Then its branches shooting out 



