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WHITE CEDAR. 
ed by seeds, which come up the first year. The tree may also be propa- 
gated by cuttings, put, in autumn, into sand or heath soil, in the shade, 
and kept moist. Cuttings of the winter wood, or of the summer shoots 
with the leaves on, will root in a vessel of water in a very few weeks ; and 
if an inch of soil be placed at the bottom of the vessel, the fibres will root 
in it, and the plants may be used as if they had been struck in the usual 
manner. Layers put down in moist soil, root the first year.] 
WHITE CEDAR. 
Cufressus thyoides. C foliis squamulatim imbricatis ; ramulis compressis ; 
strobilis minutis , globulosis. 
Among the resinous trees of the United States, the White Cedar is one 
of the most interesting for the varied utility of its wood. North of the 
river Connecticut, it is rare and little employed in the arts : in the 
Southern States, I have not seen it beyond the river Santee, but I have 
been assured that it is found, though not abundantly, near Augusta on 
the Savannah: it is multiplied only within these limits, and^to the distance 
of 50 miles from the shore of the Ocean. 
In New York, and in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, it is known by the 
name of White Cedar , and in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, by 
that of Juniper. I have adopted the first denomination, which is not 
unknown where the second is habitually used, because the tree belongs to 
a different genus from the Junipers. At Boston and in Vermont, New 
Hampshire, and the more northern parts of America, the Arbor Vitæ is 
called White Cedar, but I have thought proper to retain the name for the 
species we are considering. 
The White Cedar grows only in wet grounds. In the maritime districts 
of New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia, it nearly fills the extensive marshes 
which lie adjacent to the salt-meadows, and are exposed in high tides to be 
overflowed by the sea. In New Jersey it covers almost alone the whole 
surface of the swamps, of which the Tupelo and Red Maple occupy the 
