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is also a slow grower, but we all know how hardy and valu- 

 able it is." 



H. C. Warner, Forestburg, S. D., writes: "The Red cedar 

 has always done well on my place and has so far escaped 

 the cedar gall. It makes a fine growth after becoming well 

 rooted." 



A. Norby, Madison, S. D., reported February, 1907, his 

 twenty years' experience with this tree as follows: "Our 

 native Red cedar has behaved peculiarly of late. Last 

 winter, 1905-06, it killed out by the thousand in this 

 part of the state, almost any size from seedlings to six-foot 

 trees, no matter what source the seed came from. I had 

 little trees one to two feet, raised from seed collected near 

 Pierre that proved no better. Then there is a fungus 

 disease or blight attacking the small trees in the nursery, 

 killing them by the wholesale, in these wet seasons. I must 

 say, however, that I have some rows of thrifty cedars, now 

 1 8 to 20 feet high, making an excellent barrier against the 

 wind." 



RED CEDAR. (Juniperus Virginiana, I/.). Prof. Thomas 

 A. Williams wrote in May, 1905:* "This cedar occurs as a 

 small or medium-sized tree in the Sioux Valley, along the Mis- 

 souri and its tributaries, and throughout the Black Hills. 

 As in the Creeping Juniper, the leaves are usually opposite 

 and of two sorts. The scale-like leaves are usually obtusely, 

 pointed and the berries are on straight stalks and are only 

 about one-fourth of an inch in diameter. 



"A pale or glaucous-leaved variety is common along the 

 Cheyenne river. It is a much prettier tree than the com- 

 mon form and would undoubtedly be valuable for an orna- 

 mental tree." 



Silver Cedar. This name is applied to the silvery 

 leaved Red cedar mentioned in the preceding paragraph. 



*Sulletin No. 43, S. D. Exp. Sta. 



