122 ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING 
over twenty feet high, and is of compact growth, but in 
Florida it reaches eighty feet. 
The leaves are remarkable in that there are two 
shapes, the sharp or awl-shaped, and the scale-shaped, 
growing upon the same branch. 
The wood is valuable for many purposes and has been 
used so extensively that it is becoming scarce. 
Florida has furnished the world with red cedar for 
lead pencils for years, and it is said that during the 
Civil War, when the whole southern coast was block- 
aded, the European manufacturers were obliged to scour 
the world to find a substitute for the Florida cedar. 
