62 THE TREES OF AMERICA. 



Asia, as far as the Crimea and the Oural." The wood of the red cedar is used 

 for posts, it being very durable. It is also used for pencils, the handles of paint 

 brushes, and for various other purposes. As an ornamental tree, it is not in 

 much demand. It might be made very useful for this purpose under certain 

 circumstances, as it bears heading in to almost any extent ; and may, by this 

 process, be made so thick in foliage as almost to exclude the sunlight. For the 

 purpose of live hedges it is well fitted, and it is to be regretted that it is not 

 more extensively used in this way. A neighbor of ours, Jonathan Tidd, Esq., 

 has a very promising hedge of this description. Emerson, quoting from the 

 New England Farmer, says, " The cedar is peculiarly well fitted for the purpose 

 of live hedges. It throws out boughs near the ground, pliant, and capable of 

 being woven into any form. They gradually, however, become stiff. Clipping 

 will make cedar hedges extremely thick. No animal will injure them by brows- 

 ing. Manured and cultivated, they come rapidly to perfection. The plants are 

 frequently found in great abundance without the trouble of raising them. As 

 an evergreen, they are preferable to deciduous plants ;, and they live better than 

 any young trees I have ever tried. They should be planted, with a sod taken 

 up of sufficient size to prevent injury to the roots, between December and the 

 middle of April, on each side of a fence, the plants and rows being each ten feet 

 apart, and each plant in one row opposite the centre of the interval between two 

 successive plants in the other row. They should be topped at a foot high, and 

 not suffered to gain more than three or four inches yearly in height, such boughs 

 excepted as can be worked into the fence at the ground. Of these, great use 

 may be made in thickening the hedge by bending them to the ground, and cov- 

 ering them well with earth in the middle, leaving them growing to the stem. 

 Thus they invariably take root and fill up gaps." 



Evergreen trees are usually thought to be very difficult to transplant. Our 

 beautiful white pine is generally so regarded ; but we have never had any 

 trouble with this most valuable variety. The month of June is perhaps the 

 best time in which to move it. It is best to take some soil with it when it is 

 dug up ; and we would advise the same care with it as we bestow upon other 

 trees. We follow Mr. Tudor's plan in all cases, thinking if a tree is worth 



