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Things to Enow and Do 38g Bald Cypress {Taxodium disHchum) A fine forest tree, up to 150 feet, with thin leaves somewliat like those of Hemlock, half an inch to an inch long; cones rounded about an inch through. Sheds its leaves each fall so is "bald" in winter. Noted for the knees or upbent roots that it develops when growing in water. Timber soft, v^eak, but durable and valuable; a cubic foot weighs 27 lbs. In low wet country <A Mississippi Valley and Southeast coast. Arbor-vitce, or White Cedar (Thuya occidentaiis) Evergreen; 50 to 60 feet hi^. Wood soft, brittle, coarse- grained, extiemety durable as posts; fragrant and very light (the }?C^ lightest on our hst). Makes good sticks tor rubbing-stick fire. A cubic foot weighs only lo lbs. The scale-like leaves are about