I have seen Port Orford cedar growing in the forest. Iwould like to digress from the subject long enough to tellabout the place where we saw these trees. It was on that sameWestern trip, back in '37, that we left the central Oregon high-way and drove over to Port Orford for the purpose of seeing
• It is generally believed that Norway pine has been used in making arrowsfor at least a thousand years but Ascham, in his "Toxophilus", does not mentionit. Horace Ford makes mention of it in his "Theory and Practice" which waswritten about 1856.
these cedars as they grew. A kindly lady, who owns the landaround this historic spot, gave us permission to wanderaround and pointed out some of these trees to us. We foundthem to be rather large trees with straight trunks and a lightgray bark.
