FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



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Wood, pale brown, tinged with red. Very fine-grained, with a slight aromatic 

 odor, and, like all of the brown -wooded junipers, remarkably durable when 

 exposed to weather or earth. It is soft and brittle, and splits easily. In the 

 latter two qualities it is so similar to the wood of the eastern red-wooded 





pencil "cedars" (./. rirc/iiiiami and J. barbadensis) that it would serve excel- 

 lently for lead-pencil wood; but few consumers of pencil wood arc familiar 

 with it. The short, often very knotty trunks, much used for posts and fuel, fur- 



