86 THE CANADIAN FOBESTEb's. 



building and in joiners- work. For other details, see the 

 chapters on pines, in the summary of trees common to 

 all the provinces of the Dominion. Eng. No. 92, p. 103, 

 shows a bough of the yellow-pine, and No. 93, same page, 

 its seeds. 



Thuya occidental-is — -Arbor vita — White-Cedar. 

 The white cedar grows naturally in low, marshy places. 

 The seed ripens in autumn, and the tree, eventually. 

 Teaches a height of forty feet by twenty inches in dia- 

 meter. It grows but slowly, taking twenty years to 



[71. — Year-old oak, without its tap-root. 



attain a height of sixteen feet by four inches. Useful 

 as the white cedar is as a windguard, there are other 

 trees which, in that capacity, are preferable to it ; the 

 Norway spruce, for example. It is only as an ornament 

 that I can advise its cultivation. Still, it is worth tak- 

 ing care of, by hoeing, &c,, where it grows, as its wood is 

 excellent for shingles, fence posts, which made of this 

 wood will last forty years, and rails, which will last 

 sixty. The white-cedar will bear clipping into any 

 desired shape. It is said to take well from cuttings, 

 and young plants found in the bush transplant most suc- 

 cessfully. Engraving No. 94, p. 104, represents the white- 

 cedar, and No. 95, p. 105, its seeds. 



