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and the ease with which it can be worked. This is the 
familiar tree of our roadside, where the birds who feast 
on the cedar berries have stood on the fence rails and 
unconsciously planted rows of cedars for future genera- 
tions by dropping the seeds on the ground. 
Fic. 130. Red Cedar growing along Roadside from Seed dropped by Birds 
The red cedar seems to grow where other trees can- 
not exist, but like other trees responds to good treat- 
ment and reaches its best development m the balmy 
and luxuriant South. 
It is found from Maine to Florida and from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific. In the North it rarely grows 
