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Title: Timber trees and forests of North Carolina
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 Ashe, W. W. (William Willard), 1872-1932, joint author
Subjects: Trees Forests and forestry
Publisher: Winston, M. I. & J. C. Stewart, public printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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forest, or withthe white bay, or scattered in small clumps, in cypress and gumswamps. The juniper bears seed very plentifully nearly every year.Seedlings are common near the parent trees, but usually die underdeep shade. Fire is very destructive to trees of all ages, andextensive areas of valuable timber have been burned, particularlyin the Dismal Swamp. In many swamps large quantities of fallentrees, sound and lit for lumber, lie buried at various depths. The leaves are very small, ovate-pointed, awl-shaped, andclosely appressed in 4 rows. The male and female flowers areseparate but on the same plant; the male catkins cylindrical, thefemale globose. The cones are very small and globular, withthick scales bearing 2 or more seeds at the base. The juniper, atleast in peaty swamps, has a poorly developed tap-root or none atall, and long strong superficial lateral roots. The wood is very light and soft, not strong, close-grained, com- If. c. Geological sitrvey. stJLLETijsr 6. piiAtfi xm.
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RED CEDAR J RED CEDAE. 121 pact, easily worked, and very durable in contact with the soil ;light brown in color : the sapwood lighter. It is used for boat-building, woodenware, cooperage, shingles, interior finish, tele-graph posts, fence posts, railway ties, and in the manufacture oflampblack. Charcoal for gun power is made from the smallertrunks. The original growth, in most accessible jnniper swamps of thisState, is being rapidly removed. There still remain, however,large quantities in Dare, Tyrrell, and Gates counties and in theDismal Swamp, which are yet inaccessible. Juniperus virginiana, Linnseus. (red cedar.) An evergreen tree, with pyramidal head, numerous crowdeddrooping branches, and dark brown shaggy bark, reaching a heightof 100 and a diameter of 6 feet, or at its northern and westernlimits often reduced to a low shrub. (Plate XIII.) It is one of the most widely distributed North American trees,and occnrs in all parts of the United States except western Texas,California,

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