Forest trees of the Pacific slope . Juniper IIS occidcntdUn: seed. these are similar in form, but much shorter, spreading in groups of three at closeintervals. These leaves grow gradually shorter and closer in their arrangementuntil about the third or fourth year, when a few twigs bear short leaves of adultform. FOREST TREES OP THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 183 Wood, pale brown, tinged with red. Very flne-gralned, with a slight aromatic-odor, and, like all of the brown-wooded Junipers, reniarlcal)ly durable whenexposed to weather or earth. It is soft and brittle, and splits easily. In thelatter two quali
Forest trees of the Pacific slope . Juniper IIS occidcntdUn: seed. these are similar in form, but much shorter, spreading in groups of three at closeintervals. These leaves grow gradually shorter and closer in their arrangementuntil about the third or fourth year, when a few twigs bear short leaves of adultform. FOREST TREES OP THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 183 Wood, pale brown, tinged with red. Very flne-gralned, with a slight aromatic-odor, and, like all of the brown-wooded Junipers, reniarlcal)ly durable whenexposed to weather or earth. It is soft and brittle, and splits easily. In thelatter two qualities it is so similar to the wood of the eastern red-wooded. pencil cedars (J. virginiana and .7. harhadnisis) that it would serve excel-lently for lead-pencil wood; but few consumers of pencil wood are familiarwith it. The short, often very knotty trunks, much used for posts and fuel, fur- 184 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. uisli poor saw timber, but would give good blocks for iteneils and other minorcommercial uses. As a forest tree, western juniper deserves special attentionon account of its unusual ability to thrive at high elevations, on dry wind-sweptsituations. Few other trees can so persistently withstand such exposure. Longevity.—While the age limit of this tree has not been fully determined,it is known to be exceedingly long-lived. Its height growth is always slow,as is also its diameter growth when it is exposed, as it usually is, to fierce windsand grows rooted iu crevices of rock. But even in such situations it grows per-sistently, producing thick trunks out of all proportion to its height. The woodof such trees is very fine-
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