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Wood, pale brown, tinged with red. Very fine-grained, with a slight aromatic
odor, and, like all of the browvn-wooded junipers, remarkably durable when
exposed to weather or earth. It is soft aned brittle, and splits easily. In the
latter two qualities it is so similar to the wood of the easterin red-wooded
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pencil "cedars" (J. virginiana and J. barbadcmisi.i) tUamt it would serve excellently
for lead-pencil wood; blt few consmliners of pencil wood are familiar
with it. The short, often very knotty trunks, much used for posts and fuel, fur-