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Great Britain where it has been tried, even as far north as 
Aberdeen, where, as in many other places, it is found 
hardier than the Cedar of Lebanon. It is readily propa- 
gated by seeds, which preserve their vitality when imported 
in the cones. It also grows freely by cuttings, which appeal 
to make as handsome free-growing plants as those raised 
from seed.” The soil and culture for this tree are pre- 
cisely those for the Cedar of Lebanon. 
The Red Cedar Tree. Juniperus. 
Nat. Ord. Coniferae. Lin. Syst. Dicecia, Monadelphia. 
The Red Cedar is a very common tree, indigenous to 
this country, and growing in considerable abundance from 
Maine 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 bluf 
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 color 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 
’ndeed a picturesque tree. Then its branches shooting out 
