The Cedar. 



and these two trees, besides their other numerous valuable 

 qualities, give us this thing which is so desirable. 



169. Concerning the RED CEDAR {Juniperus Virgi- 

 niana), I will first give what Michaux, in his American 

 Sylva, says upon the subject; and then I will give an 

 account of my own experience in the raising of the 

 plants. 



170. " The foliage is evergreen, numerously subdivided, 

 " and composed of small sharp scales enchased in one 

 " another. It diffuses a resinous aromatic odour when 

 " bruised ; dried and reduced to powder, it has the same 

 " effect as the common Juniper, of increasing the 



efficacy of blistering plasters. The male and female 

 " flowers are small, not conspicuous, and borne separately 

 " on the same or on different stocks. The seeds are small 



ovate berries, bluish when ripe, and covered with a 

 " white exudation. They arrive at maturity about the 

 " beginning of the fall, and, if sown immediately, the 

 " greater part of them shoot the following spring, but not 

 " before the second year, if they are kept several months. 

 " The quantity of gin made from them in the United States 

 " is small, compared with what is imported from Holland. 



The name of Red Cedar is descriptive only of the per- 

 " feet wood, which is of a bright tint 5 the sap is perfectly 



white. The most striking peculiarity in the vegetation 

 " of the Red Cedar is, that its branches, which are nume- 

 " rous and close, spring near the earth, and spread hori- 



zontally, and that the lower limbs are, during many 



years, as long as the body of the tree. The trunk de- 



creases so rapidly, that the largest stocks rarely afford 

 " timber for ship-building, of more than eleven feet in 

 " length. Its diameter is very much diminished by deep 



