The Cedar. 



in all Northern parts of the United States^ in Canada, New 

 Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. The katkins are collected 

 when ripe, made very dry, and may be brought to England 

 in barrels, or bags; and as the seed, if kept in a dry state, 

 will be as good at the end of two years as at the end of one 

 year, it may be brought to England at any time of the year, 

 and safely kept till the suitable occasion for sowing arrive. 



In Latin, Juniperus ; in French, Cedre. 



167. The botanical characters are : It has male and female flowers in 

 different plants, and sometimes at separate distances on the same plant. The 

 male flowers grow on a conical katkin ; the flowers are placed by threes, two 

 of them fastened along the common tail opposite, terminated by a single 

 one ; the scales are broad, short, lying over each other, and fixed to the 

 column by a very short foot-stalk. The flower has no petal, but three sta- 

 mina in the male flower, which are joined in one body below, having three 

 distinct summits, adhering to the scales of the lateral flowers. The female 

 flowers have a small three-pointed empalemeot, sitting upon the germen, 

 which is permanent; they have three stiffs, acute, permanent petals ; the ger- 

 men sitting below the empaleraeut, supports three single styles, crowned by 

 stigmas. The germen afterwards becomes a roundish berry, inclosing three 

 stony seeds, which are oblong and angular on one side, but convex on the 

 other. 



168. Miller reckons thirteen varieties of the Cedar 5 but, 

 as I am to treat of only such trees as are fit for forests, 

 or woods, I shall mention but two : the RED CEDAR and 

 the WHITE CEDAR; both suited to our climate, both 

 hardy, both of great utility, and both thriving upon lands 

 (the one on the dry and arid, and the other on the very 

 wet), where hardly any other tree will even live. Lofty 

 evergreens are, above all other trees, wanted in England ; 



