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ance. There the trees are disseminated widely by the birds, 

 which feed with avidity upon the berries. 



The Red Cedar is well known to every person as one of 

 our very best timber trees. It takes its name from the red- 

 dish hue of the perfect wood. This has a fragrant odour, 

 and is not only light, fine-grained, and close in texture, but 

 extremely durable. It is therefore much employed, (though 

 of late it is becoming scarcer,) in conjunction with the Live 

 oak, which is too heavy alone, in ship-building. It is also 

 valued for its great durability as posts for fencing ; and is 

 exported to Europe, to be used in the manufacture of pencils, 

 and other useful purposes. 



The Arbor ViTiE Tree. Thuja. 

 Nat. Ord. Coniferse. Lin. Syst. Monoecia, MonadeJphia. 



The Arbor Vitas, [Thuja occidentalism) sometimes also 

 called Flat Cedar, or White Cedar, is distinguished from 

 most evergreens by its flat foliage, composed of a great num- 

 ber of scales closely imbricated, or overlaying each other, 

 which give the whole a compressed appearance. The seeds 

 are borne in a small cone, usually not more than half an 

 inch in length. 



This tree is extremely formal and regular in outline in al- 

 most every stage of growth ; generally assuming the shape 

 of an exact cone or pyramid of close foliage, of considerable 

 extent at the base, close to the ground, and narrowing up- 

 wards to a sharp point. So regular is their outline in many 

 cases, when they are growing upon favourable soils, that at 

 a short distance they look as if they had been subjected to 

 the clipping-shears. The sameness of its form precludes the 

 employment of this evergreen in so extensive a manner as most 



