i So May 1749* 



where they ftruck roots, and fucceeded very 

 well. I have ken them myfelf. 



The red Juniper-tree is another tree 

 which I have mentioned very frequently in 

 the courfe of my account. The Swedes 

 have given it the name of red Juniper, be- 

 caufe the wood is very red and fine within. 

 The Englifh call it red Cedar, and the 

 French Cedre rouge. However, the Swedijh 

 name is the moil proper, as the tree be- 

 longs to the Junipers*. At its firft 

 growth it has a deal of fimilarity to the 

 Swedijh Juniper -f- , but after it is grown 

 up it gets quite different leaves. The ber- 

 ry exactly refembles that of the Swedijh 

 Juniper, in regard to its colour and fhape ; 

 however, they are not fo big, though the 

 red Cedar grows very tall. At Raccoon 

 theie trees ftood fingle, and were not very 

 tall. But at other places I have feen them 

 landing together in clutters j they like 

 the fame ground as the common Swedijh 

 Juniper, efpecially on the rifing banks of 

 rivers, and on other rifing grounds, in a 

 dry, and frequently in a poor foil. I have 

 feen them growing in abundance, as thick 

 and tall as the talleft fir-trees, on poor dry 

 and fandy heaths. Towards Canada, or in 



the 



* Juniperus Virginiana. Linn. Spec. pi. p. 114.. 

 t J u ?i'perui communis. Linn. Spec. pi. p. 1470. 



