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is accounted a spurious kind; all of them difficult to removewith succefs ; nor prosper they being shaded at all, or over-dripped.The Swedish Juniper, now so frequent in our modish gardens,and shorn into pyramids, is but a taller and somewhat brighter sortof the vulgar.
It is commonly called the Phoenician Cedar, though it is found growing naturally in mostof the southern parts of Europe .
6 JUNIPERUS (Virginiana) foliis terms basi adnatis; junioribus imbricatis, senioribuspatulis. Ein. Sp. PI. 1471. Juniper with leaves placed by threes adhering at their base, the youngones lying over each other, and the old ones spreading, Juniper.us maxima, cuprefsi folio minimo,COrtice extcriorc in tenues philyras spirales ductili. Sloan. Jam. Cedar of VIRGINIA , or
RED CEDAR,
The Virginia Cedar is a tree of great use and beauty. Its growth is upright. The branchesform a beautiful cone; and if left unsprigged, the freewill be feathered to the very base.It grows to near forty feet high ; and the timber is valuable for many excellent uses. It willcontinue sound and uncorrupt for many ages, being pofsefsed of a bitter resin, which preventsthe worms from attacking it. The wood may be converted into utensils of most sorts, aswell as applied to a great part of the uses to which the Cyprefs is adapted. It is remarkable,however, for being of a very brittle nature, and is therefore not proper to be introduced intobuildings where any great weight is to be lodged. Neverthelefs, in Virginia and Carolina,where they abound, these trees are used in structures of all kinds, with this precaution ; andthe inhabitants prefer the timber for winscotting their rooms and building of vefsels. Thosewho are desirous of having variety of timber-trees in their plantations, will doubtlefs be in-clined to allow this a place.
7. JUNIPERUS (beRMUdiana) foliis inferioribus ternis, superioribus quadrifariam im_bricatis. Mill. Diet. Juniper with spreading under-leaves placed by threes, and the upper by fours ,which lie close over each other. Juniperus Bermudiana. H. L. Cedar of Bermudas .
The Cedar of Bermudas is a very tender plant , and requires not only a dry warm soil, and awell-sheltered situation, but open, mild winters, to make it continue through them ; so thatwhen a person is desirous of having an extensive collection, then, and then only, is this sortto be sought after. When planted abroad in the warmest places, sheds should be made forthem of boards well closed, and these should be at hand for the gardener to cover the plantswith at the first approach of frosty weather. The sheds are to be enlarged as the trees ad-vance in height; for though they will more peculiarly want protection when young, yeta severe frost, with cutting black winds, will endanger very full-grown trees. This speciesgrows to be a large timber-tree in America ; and we used to receive the wood from thencein greater plenty than we do at present. It is pofsefsed of a very sweet smell, which formerlyrecommended it for stair-cases, chests of drawers, and other pieces of furniture, but it is nowuniversally neglected by our cabinet-makers. We never must expect to raise this tree toanswer any purposes in the timber-way; the most we can expect is a few only in our
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