SAVIN. — RED CEDAR. 
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collected specimens in Massachusetts, which cannot be dis- 
tinguished from others from the West Indies. Like our 
ordinary species it also becomes a tree of 20 or more feet 
in height. 
Savin, ( Juniperus sabina.) This species, apparently the 
same with that of Europe, is indigenous from Canada to 
Maine. It is not uncommon in the vicinity of Portland, 
retaining its usual dwarf habit. Pursh’s variety, procumbens , 
I have seen along the shores of Lake Huron. It is a very 
distinct species, being wholly prostrate, and spreading 
along the ground in very wide circles. According to 
Pallas, there is also a procumbent species on the borders 
of the Tanais, with the branches extending on the sand for 
several fathoms. 
Red Cedar, (Juniperus virginiana .) West of the Mis- 
sissippi this tree appears on the high abrupt banks of the 
Platte, particularly at Scott’s Bluffs. The “ Black Hills” 
or most eastern chain of the Rocky Mountains, are so 
called probably from the dark Red Cedars and Pines with 
which they are thickly scattered. The borders of Bear 
River, of Lake Timpanogos, and, in short the whole range 
of the Rocky Mountains, clear over to the borders of the 
Brulee, a stream of the Oregon, are all more or less clad 
and decorated with our familiar Juniper. It is also said to 
become one of the highest timber trees in the island of 
Jamaica, affording very large boards of a reddish-brown 
colour, of a close grain, odoriferous and offensive to insects 
and is therefore of great use to the cabinet maker. 
In Sussex county, New Jersey, near Franklin Furnace, 
I have seen trees of the Red Cedar 50 to 60 feet high, and 
with a diameter of 2 feet. There is now in Germantowm, 
in this vicinity, on the estate of Mr. Shoemaker, several 
