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TIMBEE 
It is usually got in lengths of about 25 ft. and 15 to 
20 inches square ; the annual rings are fairly close, eight to 
fifteen to the inch, and in old trees from twenty to thirty, 
and the medullary rays are small and faint. It comes to 
the English market under the name of pencil cedar. 
Weight about 31 lbs. per cubic foot. 
White Cedar, of which there are several varieties, is a 
similar timber to the red cedar, but is whitish or light 
greyish brown in colour, and has not the strong fragrance 
of the latter. 
•The following are white cedars in the American timber 
trade : — 
Port Orford Cedar {Cnpressus lawsoniana), a very large 
tree of Oregon, yielding a fine, close-grained, yellowish 
white durable timber, elastic, easily worked, free of knots, 
and fragrant, and much used for panelling and furniture. 
The Alaska or Yellow Cedar {Cnpressus nootkatensis) of 
the sanie high regions on the west coast is equal to or 
better than the above for inside work. 
White Cedar [Cnpressus thyoides), also from the western 
States. 
The Arbor vitae or White Cedar [Thuya uccidentalis), a tree 
of 20 to 40 ft. in height, which grows in the northern 
States, is much appreciated for sleepers ; used also for 
shingles (all cedars are appreciated for shingles and are 
more used for this purpose than any other timber in the 
United States, and white cedar shingles, if of good quality, 
have a life of forty to fifty years in the northern States),^ 
^ Eoof shingles in America are from 16 to 24 inches long, 6 to 10 
inches broad, and taper in thickness from | to 1| inches. In the 
Alpine districts of Europe they are larger. 
