# Cedar chests, how to make them

Author: Windoes, Ralph Flagg, 1891-1967

Genre: Category: Engineering & Technology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75563

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Cedar+chests%2C+how+to+make+them+Windoes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The botanical name for red cedar suitable for chest construction is =Juniperus Virginiana=, or =Southern Juniper=, as it is familiarly known. Commercially, it is sold as “Tennessee Red Cedar.” There are other cedar woods but none of them should be used in chests if the great advantages of cedar are to be derived, and especially should the “western cedar” be avoided, as it is very common and easy to purchase, yet it has no value as a wood for cedar chest construction. Southern Juniper may aptly be called the “wood imperishable,” since, under ordinary conditions, it will never decay. Placed as shingles with copper nails, there is little doubt but that it will last for ages, or until the att...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cedar-chests-how-to-make-them-75563/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cedar-chests-how-to-make-them-75563/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cedar-chests-how-to-make-them-75563/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cedar-chests-how-to-make-them-75563/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cedar-chests-how-to-make-them-75563/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cedar-chests-how-to-make-them-75563/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cedar-chests-how-to-make-them-75563/chapters/2/index.md)