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tuniers, carvers, and architects, in framing models 

 for buildings. 



Cedar. I'here are two celebrated trees under this 

 name, of different genera. 



The first is thejunifterus Virginianu^ or red ce- 

 dar, which is famous in America far affording the 

 most durable fence-posts. In Virginia and Carolina 

 the berries bf this tree are distilled into brandy. 

 The wood is said to preserve furs or woollens en- 

 closed in boxes of it, from being touched by moths. 



The white cedar, or cufiressus thyoides^ affords 

 one of the most useful woods in the United States, 

 particularly for covering houses and other buildings-; 

 most of the houses of Philadelphia are roofed with 

 shingles made of this wood. It is also used for fence*, 

 rails, boarding frame buildings, and all sorts of inside 

 work of houses, particularly where paint, varnish- 

 ing, or paper-hangings are intended. It is preferred 

 to all other wood, for coopers* ware^ such as wooden 

 cisterns, tubs, pails, churns, Sec. 



This celebrated tree posseses an extensive range 

 on the Atlantic coasts, from New Jersey, south ward5 

 as far as East and West Florida. Its natural situa- 

 tion and soil is the flat country, near the sea-shore, 

 and fifty or sixty miles back, where swamps, or a 

 wet marshy soil abounds, but will grow very well if 

 planted in higher land, provided the soil be sandy 

 and moist. 



The Bermudian red cedar is of a different species 

 from the one before-mentioned. 



Cabbage tree, coryfiha umbracuUfera. A tall 

 and beautiful species of palm tree, which grows on 

 the sea-coast of Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Ite 



