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Common forest trees of North Carolina

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  • e> -m**Z&*^ •€> -^x}^-^ -e> -$^p<KJS>-e= -©> -^-cs^-es ;-e> -£g^<~e>.. WHITE CEDAR (Juniper) (Chamaecyparis thyoidcs B. S. P.) EXCLUSIVELY a tree of the Coastal Plain, it is found in year-round swamps from New England southward to Florida and Mississippi. It occurs with bald cypress and deep swamp hardwoods, but more often is found in pure stands called "glades," where the smooth, clean trunks are so closely set as to give the impression of "serried ranks." The WHITE CEDAR One-half natural size. branches are very short and horizontal, so that even when grown in the open the tree has a long, narrow, conical shape. The leaves are minute, scale-like, overlapping, 4- ranked, of a bluish green color, and entirely cover the ends of the slender, drooping twigs. The fruit is a rather inconspicuous, smooth cone, nearly round, about one-fourth inch in diameter, maturing in one year and containing from four to eight winged seeds. The bark is quite thin, varies in color from ashy gray to light reddish brown, and readily separates into loose plate-like scales, which easily peel off in long fibrous strips. The wood is light, soft, close- grained, slightly fragrant, especially in contact with water. These qualities make it in demand for boat and canoe building, cooperage, shingles and fence posts. It is being substituted for chestnut for telephone poles, as the supply of the latter species becomes scarcer. Because of the limited supply available, its lumber is not well known in the general markets, 17
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