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In the garden it is noted for its rapid, vigorous 

 growth and sturdy form. On the Atlantic Coast 

 there is a native species, T. occidentalis, that is 

 known as the American arbor-vitae, or white cedar, 

 furnishing the lumber known under the latter name, 

 yet not a true cedar. It will grow to fifty feet in 

 height and is widely planted in parks and large 

 gardens. 



Thuya orientalis is the name of the Chinese arbor- 

 vitae, a compact, bushy tree twenty to thirty feet 

 high when mature, with bright green foliage which 

 stands edgewise to the trunk. Another compact 

 form not so common in California as the others 

 listed, a later introduction, is known as T. tatarica, 

 a very hardy species that grows rather slowly under 

 great extremes of temperature and treatment until 

 it finally reaches twenty feet in height. 



THE TRUE CEDARS 



There are but three species of cedars, though many 

 trees are known as such. The one most commonly 

 so-called, the red cedar of the Eastern states, is a 

 juniper. 



The Mount Atlas cedar, Cedrus Atlantica, is the 

 least known to us though not rare in California gar- 

 dens. It is a rapid-growing tree of loosely formal, 

 pyramidal outline and silvery>-green foliage, and 

 though slow of growth when young eventually at- 

 tains a height of 120 feet. 



The most popular cedar is C. deodara, variously 

 known as deodar, Himalayan cedar, or incense cedar ; 

 a most beautiful and stately tree of towering pyra- 

 midal growth, peculiarly suited to all parts of Cali- 

 fornia. Its foliage is bluish-green, silvery on the 

 under side, at all times attractive. In the opinion of 

 the author this is the most beautiful of all trees. 



