USES. These two trees have helped decorate our groves for a long time. They 

 provide excellent shelter to protect 



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seed beds and young plants from north winds. The inhabitants of Canada believe that the 

 wood of the white cedar resists decay. They use it to make stakes for enclosures and 

 stockades for their forts. They make brooms from leafy young branches to scent the 

 rooms in which they're used. This tree is just as workable with a chisel as is the yew. In a 

 Zurich garden Malesherbes saw a very large arbor that contained several arbor vitae trees 

 joined together to create an impenetrable cover against not only the sun's rays but even 

 against rain. 



CULTIVATION. Arbor vitae trees are very hardy. They do equally well in dry or in 

 moist soil. They're propagated with seeds planted in a good exposure and in loose soil. 

 After two years they're transplanted two feet apart; about the fourth year they can be 

 situated permanently. They require no further special care. The white cedar grows 

 extremely slowly. Arbor vitae trees also can be propagated by layering. Young branches 

 are layered in the autumn. The plants that stem from them are then transplanted and 

 treated as though they were cuttings. Some gardens cultivate a variety of the white cedar 

 with variegated leaves. 



KEY TO PLATES. 



Oriental arbor vitae. 1. Male flower. 2. Fruit or cone. 3. Same, opened. 



4. Intact seed. 5. Same, transverse section. 

 White cedar. 1. Fruit. 2. Same, opened. 3. Seed. 



