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to Florida ; but thriving with the greatest luxuriance in the 
sea-board states. When fully grown, the Red Cedar is about 
40 feet in height, and little more than a foot in diameter. 
The leaves are very small, composed of minute scales, and 
lie pretty close to the branches. Small blue berries, borne 
thickly upon the branches of the female trees in autumn 
and winter, contain the seeds. These are covered with a 
whitish exudation, and are sometimes used, like those of the 
foreign juniper, in the manufacture of gin. 
The Red Cedar has less to recommend it to the eye than 
most of the evergreens, which we have already described. 
The colour of the foliage is dull and dingy at many seasons, 
and the form of the young tree is too compactly conical to 
please generally. When old, however, we have seen it 
throw off this formality, and become an interesting, and, in- 
deed, a picturesque tree. Then its branches shooting out in 
a horizontal direction, clad with looser and more pendant 
foliage, give the whole tree quite another character. The 
twisted stems, too, when they become aged, have a singular, 
dried-looking, whitish bark, which is quite unique and pe- 
culiar. There is a very fine natural avenue of Red Cedars 
near Fishkill landing, in Dutchess Co., composed of two 
rows of noble trees 35 or 40 feet high, which is a very 
agreeable walk in winter and early spring. This has given 
the name of Cedar Grove to the country-seat in question 
where the Red Cedar grows spontaneously upon a slate 
subsoil, with great luxuriance. There the trees are dis- 
seminated widely by the birds, which feed with avidity 
upon the berries. 
The Red Cedar is well known to every person as one of 
our very best timber trees. It takes its name from the red- 
