The Cedar. 



This is so much the case, that the Chancellor Livingston 

 (ambassador in France about twenty years ago), in a book 

 which he wrote on the management of sheep, has a long 

 passage upon this species of sheep-food which, indeed, I 

 used to thus apply myself, and with very great success. 

 These trees would thrive on any of the poorest of our hills 

 of chalk, of sand, of gravel, or of rock. Nothing can be 

 easier to raise, and nothing more easily to be obtained than 

 the seed. 



173. WHITE CEDAR {Cupressus Thy aides) .—This tree, 

 which appears to have been unknown to Miller, would seem 

 to be something half way between a Cedar and a Cypress; for 

 it does not bring its seed in a berry, after the manner of the 

 Cedar, but in a little dry cone, not larger than a marrow-fat 

 pea ; but, while it has three seeds in each cone, the cone 

 is not, like that of the Deciduous Cypress, globular, but has 

 little squares imprinted upon its surface. The cone is so 

 compact, that, unless quite ripe, you must actually thump it 

 with something hard and heavy to get out the seeds 5 but, 

 if ripe, or nearly so, and laid in a warm sun, or near a fire, 

 the cones w'lW open and the seed come out. 



174. The SOWING ought to take place as soon after you 

 get the seeds (in the fall or winter) as the ground can be 

 made to work. The manner of sowing is that of the Red 

 Cedar, except that these seeds must not have more than 

 an inch of covering. These seeds also do not come up till 

 the second year ; the plants are to be treated, in all their 

 stages, like those of the Red Cedar. But pay further parti- 

 cidar attention to paragraph 215. 



175. But, as to soil and situation, this tree wholly differs 

 from the Red Cedar 3 for this ti'ee loves wet land, and even 



