The sylva americana; or, A description of the forest trees indigenous to the United States, practically and botanically considered . hoose it for the inside of mahogany is highly proper for the masts and sides of vessels, and whereverit grows it is chosen for canoes, which are fashioned from a singletrunk, and are often 30 feet long and 5 feet wide, light, solid andmore durable than those of any other tree. It makes the best pipesto convey water under ground ; especially the black variety,which is more resinous and solid. White Cedar. Cupressus thyoides. Among the resinous treesof
The sylva americana; or, A description of the forest trees indigenous to the United States, practically and botanically considered . hoose it for the inside of mahogany is highly proper for the masts and sides of vessels, and whereverit grows it is chosen for canoes, which are fashioned from a singletrunk, and are often 30 feet long and 5 feet wide, light, solid andmore durable than those of any other tree. It makes the best pipesto convey water under ground ; especially the black variety,which is more resinous and solid. White Cedar. Cupressus thyoides. Among the resinous treesof the United States, theWhite Cedar is one of themost interesting for thevaried utility of its of the river Connec-ticut it is rare and littleemployed in the arts. Inthe Southern States it is notmet with beyond the riverSantee, but it is found, thoughnot abundantly, on the Sa-vannah : it is multiplied onlywithin these limits and tothe distance of 50 milesfrom the ocean. At NewYork, New Jersey and Penn-sylvania, it is known by the name of White Cedar, and inMaryland, Virginia and North Carolina, by that of Juniper. We. PLATE 1 A leaf. Fig. 2. A cone. DENDROLOGY. 147 have adopted the first denomination, which is not unknown wherethe second is habitually used, because the tree belongs to adifferent genus from the junipers. In Massachusetts, Vermont,New Hampshire and the more northern parts of America, thearbor vitae is called white cedar, but we have thought proper toretain the name for the species we are now considering. Thewhite cedar grows only in wet grounds. In the maritime districtsof New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia, it nearly fills the. extensivemarshes which lie adjacent to the salt meadows, and are exposedin high tides to be overflowed by the sea. In New Jersey itcovers almost alone the whole surface of the swamps. The white cedar is 70 or 80 feet high, and sometimes morethan three feet in diameter. When the trees are close andcompressed, the trunk is
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