CHAP. XXXVI.] CEDARS. 381 



Bermuda Cedar is Juniperus Bermudiana*, and various 

 allied species of Thuja, Librocedrus, and Cupressus are 

 called Cedars in our colonies. 



Cedar-wood is also the name given to Idea altissima, 

 the timber used for making canoes in Guiana ; while 

 Gjiazuma in Jamaica, and Dysoxylon in Australia, are 

 called Bastard Cedar, and there are other cases of the 

 same misapplication of the word. 



The following concerns the true Cedars. 



THE CEDARS. 



CEDAR OF LEBANON {Cedrus Libani) 



is found upon Mount Lebanon, the Taurus, and also 

 upon many of the mountains in Asia Minor. 



It is a very stately and majestic evergreen tree, with 

 heavy wide-spreading branches thrown out horizontally 

 from low down the stem, bearing clustered leaves and 

 erect obtuse oblong cones. Very extraordinary accounts 



* Bermudian Cedar (Juniperus Bermndiana) is very small, and much 

 lighter than that of Cuba. It was tried experimentally in the building of several 

 brigs and schooners in the royal dockyards, before wood ship-b'jilding had 

 passed into disuse, but with only partial success, and the use of it was soon 

 discontinued. It is used in the Bermudas for the building of boats and small 

 vessels, and is in request in this country for making of pencils. 



The Cedar of Florida is similar in quality and texture to the Bermudian, and 

 is well adapted for the same kind of employment. 



The Spaniards formerly used Cedar to a great extent in ship-building ; and 

 the Gibraltar and other large ships of theirs were found, on being taken to 

 pieces, to have much of this wood in them, in a sound state. 



The same rule prevails in the market with reference to the sale of Cedar as 

 with Mahogany, namely, that of deducting about one-third from the calliper 

 measurement for irregularity of manufacture, shakes, defects, centres, saw- 

 kerfs, &c. 



Pencil Cedar is classed No. 3 ; Red Cedar, No. 6 ; and M^hite Cedar, 

 No. 17, among timbers used in ships, in Lloyds' rules for ship-building. 



