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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



often occupying the rocky banks of streams, from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, north- 

 westward to the mouth of the Saskatchewan, and southward through eastern Canada 

 to southern New Hampshire, central Massachusetts, New York, central Ohio, northern 



Fig. 66 



Indiana and Illinois, and Minnesota; occasionally on the high mountains of Virginia, 

 West Virginia, and northeastern Tennessee, and on the mountains of western Burke 

 County, North Carolina, at an altitude of 3000 feet; very common at the north, less 

 abundant and of smaller size southward. 



Often cultivated, with many, often dwarf, forms produced in nurseries, as an ornamental 

 tree and for hedges; and in Europe from the middle of the sixteenth century. 



2. Thuja plicata D. Don. Red Cedar. Canoe Cedar. 



Leaves on leading shoots ovate, long-pointed, often conspicuously glandular on the 

 back, frequently \' long, on lateral branchlets ovate, apiculate, without glands or obscurely 

 glandular-pitted, usually not more than |' long, mostly persistent 2-5 years. Flowers 

 about iV long, dark brown. 

 Fruit ripening early in the 

 autumn, clustered near the 

 ends of the branches, much 

 reflexed, \' long, with thin 

 leathery scales, conspicuously 

 marked near the apex by the 

 free border of the flower-scale 

 furnished with short stout 

 erect or recurved dark mu- 

 cros; seeds often 3 under each 

 fertile scale, rather shorter 

 than their usually slightly 

 unequal wings about \' long. 



A tree, frequently 200 

 high, with a broad gradually 



taper ing buttressed base some- Fig. 67 



times 15 in diameter at the 



ground and in old age often separating toward the summit into 2 or 3 erect divisions, 

 short horizontal branches, usually pendulous at the ends, forming a dense narrow py- 

 ramidal head, and slender much compressed branchlets often slightly zigzag, light bright 



