ARBOR VILE; WHITE CEDAR (Thuya accidentalis, Linn.). 25 to 60 feet. Compact, narrow, pyramidal tree,with trunk often di viding into 2 or 3 erect, secondary stems above the short, often ridged and buttressed trunk. Twigs flattened into frond-like spray. Bark brown, thin, splitting into frayed-out, stringy strips. Wood light, soft, brittle, yellowish brown, coarse, durable, used for posts, telegraph poles, railroad ties, and shingles. Leaves minute, scale-like, 4-ranked, close, covering the twig by the overlapping of alternate keeled and flat pairs. Aro matic. Flowers May, purplish, on tips of side twigs; staminate
in globose stamen clusters, very small; pistillate on different branches, larger, cones of 8 to 12 scales, spreading, red. Fruit annual, pale brown, erect cones, of few, plain scales, the middle ones largest and fertile, each with 2 winged seeds. Dist.: Wet ground; New Brunswick to Manitoba and adjoining states to the south; Atlantic States into New Jersey; along Allegheny Mountains, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Cul tivated in many varieties as a hedge and ornamental tree.