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AMERICAN ARBOR YITÆ. 
but is rarely employed, from the difficulty of obtaining stocks of sufficient 
diameter. Small, round or oval tubs, very neatly wrought and hooped 
with brass, are made with staves consisting partly of the sap and partly 
of the heart. I have observed that the tanners at Philadelphia make the 
large stop-cocks of this wood. In the Southern States it is commonly 
chosen for coffins. 
In some parts of Lower Virginia, particularly in the County of York, 
the Cedars are trimmed and the branches are interlaced, with stakes driven 
into the earth at small distances, for the enclosure of cultivated fields ; but 
this is a poor resource, the only advantage of which is the economy of 
wood. 
The Red Cedar is exported to England, but I am unable to say for what 
purpose ; probably it is not solely for the manufacture of pencils, though it 
seems as well adapted to that object as the Juniper of Bermuda. 
The Red Cedar has been naturalized more than fifty years in the plea- 
sure grounds of France and England : its growth would be rapid on the 
borders of the sea in our southern departments, where its propagation 
cannot be too warmly recommended. 
PLATE CLV. 
A branch ivith leaves and berries of the natural size. 
AMERICAN ARBOR VITÆ, 
OR 
WHITE CEDAR. 
Thuya occidentals. T. ramulis ancipitibus, foliis quadrifarium imbricatis , 
ovato-rhombeis, adpressis, nudis , tuberculatis ; strobilis ovatis ; squamis oblonge - 
ovalibus ; seminibus alatis. 
This species of Thuya, the only one that has been discovered in the New 
World, is the most interesting of the genus for the properties of its wood. 
