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dish hue of the perfect wood. This has a fragrant odour, 
and is not only light, fine-grained, and close in texture, but 
extremely durable. It is therefore much employed, (though 
of late it is becoming scarcer,) in conjunction with the Live 
oak, which is too heavy alone, in ship-building. It is also 
valued for its great durability as posts for fencing ; and is 
exported to Europe, to be used in the manufacture of pen- 
cils, and other useful purposes. 
The Arbor Vitas Tree. Thuja. 
Nat. Ord. Coniferse. Lin. Syst. Moncecia, Monadelphia. 
The Arbor Vitae, { Thuja occidentalism sometimes also 
called Flat Cedar, or White Cedar, is distinguished from 
most evergreens by its flat foliage, composed of a great num- 
ber of scales closely imbricated, or overlaying each other, 
which give the whole a compressed appearance. The seeds 
are borne in a small cone, usually not more than half an 
inch in length. 
This tree is extremely formal and regular in outline in al- 
most every stage of growth ; generally assuming the shape 
of an exact cone or pyramid of close foliage, of considerable 
extent at the base, close to the ground, and narrowing up- 
wards to a sharp point. So regular is their outline in many 
cases, when they are growing upon favourable soils, that at 
a short distance they look as if they had been subjected to 
the clipping-shears. The sameness of its forinprecludes the 
employment of this evergreen in so extensive a manner as 
most others ; that is, in intermingling it promiscuously with 
