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Red Cedar (Junipems virginiana L.). 



This well known tree is native both to the north and south of 

 us, but there is an intermediate region of varying width that it 

 does not inhabit. This tree is not one of the true cedars as is 

 the Deodara, and it may be distinguished from them by the blue 

 fleshy "berry" that it bears. There is a very old and fine speci- 

 men to the north of Home avenue, about one hundred yards east 

 of the old Law Place (now the residence of Mr. A. M. McNair), 

 and there is a good row of them on the lawn of Maj. J. L. Coker. 



Chinese Arbor Vitae {Thuja orientdlis L.). 



A small evergreen tree with flat sprays and small somewhat 

 fleshy cones with recurved horn-like tips to the scales. It is a 

 native of China. There are two good plants in the lawn of Maj. 

 J. L. Coker. 



Cunnixghamia (Cunninghamia sinensis R. Br.). 



A small evergreen tree with flat linear-lanceolate sharply 

 pointed leaves arranged in two rows on the twigs. There is a 

 good young specimen in the College grounds near Home Avenue. 

 It is a native of China and is not hardy at a much higher latitude 

 than ours. 



Pecax (Carya olivaeformis Nutt.). 



A large and fine tree that is too well known to need description. 

 The fruit is very variable and the seedlings cannot be depended 

 upon to reproduce the characters of the parent. Good fruit can 

 be assured only by budding or grafting, and there is the further 

 advantage of earlier bearing. Seedlings grow rapidly, but are 

 usually very slow to flower: some planted by me about twenty 

 years ago bore their first nuts when about seventeen years old. 

 There are several good-sized trees in town, and Mr. Lawton has 

 set out a commercial orchard. The pecan is native to the low- 

 lands of the lower Middle and Gulf States. 



Beech (Fagus grandi folia Ehrh.). 



A fine tree with very smooth, light green bark and firm oblong- 

 ovate leaves that have conspicuous parallel veins and sharp teeth. 

 The fruit is a small bur containing, usually, two dark shin}' nuts 

 that are angled. The beech is infrequent on the coastal plain, but 

 is generally to be found along the larger streams. I have never 



