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high, and has light, soft, but very durable wood 

 especially adapted to withstand extremes of heat 

 and moisture when in contact with the ground. 



White Cedar "^^^ white cedar is similar in some 

 Chammcyparis respects to the foregoing species, but 



spharoidea. pertain differences are well marked, 

 and they are sufficient to prevent a confusion of the 

 two trees. The white cedar grows iti a 

 symmetrical conelike figure, with a gen- 

 eral color effect of warm, light irown- 

 ish green ; arbor vitse is usually much 

 greener. The leaf spray of this tree 

 is less broad and flat than that of 

 the foregoing species ; perhaps I 

 might also call it less heavy and 

 coarse. The tiny cone is scarcely 

 one third of an inch in diameter, 

 and has about six scales, which do 

 not Of en to the hase of the cone 

 but at a wide angle with its axis ; 

 the scales are thick and pointed or bossed in the 

 middle. 



The white cedar is found from southern Maine 

 through the Atlantic States to Florida, also along 

 the Gulf to Mississippi, and generally inhabits cold 

 swamps. It grows from 30 to 90 feet high ; its 

 durable though soft white wood is used in boat- 



