RED CEDAR. 



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pact, easily worked, and very durable in contact with the soil ; 

 light brown in color ; the sapwoud lighter. It is used for boat- 

 building, woodenware, cooperage, shingles, interior finish, tele- 

 graph posts, fence posts, railway ties, and in the manufacture of 

 lampblack. Charcoal for gunpower i§ made from the smaller 

 trunks. 



The original growth, in most accessible juniper swamps of this 

 State, is being rapidly removed. There still remain, however, 

 large quantities in Dare, Tyrrell, and Gates counties and in the 

 Dismal Swamp, which are yet inaccessible. 



Juniperus virginiana, Linnaeus. 

 (red cedar.) 



An evergreen tree, with pyramidal head, numerous crowded 

 drooping branches, and dark l)ro\vn shaggy bark, reaching a height 

 of 100 and a diameter of 6 feet, or at its northern and western 

 limits often reduced to a low shrub. (Plate XIII.) 



It is one of the most widely distributed North American trees, 

 and occurs iii all parts of the United States except western Texas, 

 California, and Oregon ; reaching its best development in the 

 valley of the Red river, Texas. 



In North Carolina, wiiere it grows to an average height of 30 

 to 40 feet, and an average diameter of 10 to 13 inches, it is found 



througliout, but is rare and of small size in the high mountain 

 counties. (Fig. 32.) 



