{"id":1893,"date":"2009-01-09T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2009\/01\/09\/le-mardi-des-arbres-larborvitae-larbre-de-la-vie\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:01:28","slug":"le-mardi-des-arbres-larborvitae-larbre-de-la-vie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/01\/09\/le-mardi-des-arbres-larborvitae-larbre-de-la-vie\/","title":{"rendered":"Le mardi des arbres: L’arborvitae, l’arbre de la vie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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En lisant Spacing Montreal <\/em>pendant les vacances j’ai \u00e9t\u00e9 fort inspir\u00e9 par le mot d’Alanah Heffez par rapport\u00a0 \u00e0 la sculpture L’arbre de vie<\/a> de Joseph Rifesser qui se trouve au m\u00e9tro Lionel-Groulx. La sculpture consiste en cinq t\u00eates humaines repr\u00e9sentant les cinq continents et elle \u00e9tait un symbole de la paix au pavillon de l’Italie pendant l’Expo ’67. Son nom est le m\u00eame nom donn\u00e9 a notre c\u00e8dre commun, le c\u00e8dre que nous connaissons surtout parce qu’il est utilis\u00e9 pour cr\u00e9er les haies. Arborvitae<\/em>, c’est ainsi que les premiers Europ\u00e9ens ont appel\u00e9 Thuja occidentalis <\/em>qui se conna\u00eet \u00e9galement par les noms c\u00e8dre blanc, c\u00e8dre de l’est, thuya occidental et, en anglais, Eastern white-cedar.<\/p>\n

Pourquoi arborvitae<\/em>? Il y a deux explications possibles. D’abord, le c\u00e8dre a sauv\u00e9 la vie des premiers Europ\u00e9ens. Jacques Cartier, par exemple, a not\u00e9 en 1535 dans son journal, que la tisane, pr\u00e9par\u00e9e de feuilles de c\u00e8dre par les Iroquois de Stadaconna (Qu\u00e9bec), a gu\u00e9ri ses hommes du scorbut. Le scorbut est une maladie, caus\u00e9e par une manque de vitamine C. Comme dans le symbolique de la sculpture de Rifesser, notre arborvitae a facilit\u00e9 le rapprochement de\u00a0 deux peuples — au moins temporairement — gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 l’arbre et \u00e0 la g\u00e9n\u00e9rosit\u00e9 des Iroquois et la confiance — \u00e9ventuelle — des fran\u00e7ais. (Il para\u00eet que Cartier se m\u00e9fiait du breuvage jusqu’\u00e0 ce qu’il voit les Iroquois en boirent eux-m\u00eames!)<\/p>\n

Mais, il y a un autre explication \u00e0 l’arbre de la vie<\/em>: Les c\u00e8dri\u00e8res soutiennent \u00e9normement de vie animale surtout en hiver car l’\u00e9corce, qui s’exfoliole en lames \u00e9troites, le feuilles et les c\u00f4nes fournissent de la nourriture et du mat\u00e9riel pour les nids. En plus, les branches, couvertes de neiges, prot\u00e8gent certains oiseaux et mammif\u00e8res des vents, temp\u00eates et pr\u00e9dateurs.<\/p>\n

En plus, le c\u00e8dre blanc, grace au fait que son bois ne pourrit pas, a facilit\u00e9 la vie des\u00a0 colons du nord-est d’Am\u00e9rique du nord. Ils construisaient leur maisons en billots de c\u00e8dre et les bardeaux de la toiture \u00e9taient \u00e9galement en c\u00e8dre. Avec ou sans peinture, le bois dure tr\u00e8s longtemps. En Gasp\u00e9sie et dans les provinces maritimes, on vois encore beaucoup de maisons rev\u00eaties en bardeaux de c\u00e8dre et les vielles planches de granges abandonn\u00e9s sont revendues pour d’autre construction. Finallement, il ne faut pas oubli\u00e9 les canots en c\u00e8dre, longtemps utilis\u00e9s par Amerindiens et colons et qui continuent d’\u00eatre appr\u00e9ci\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

Dans notre For\u00eat Montr\u00e9al, on trouve bien de c\u00e8dres mais ils ont tendance \u00e0 \u00eatre petits et en rang\u00e9e pour former des haies. En principe, il y en a sur la montagne mais il n’y en a pas de spectaculaire qui me viennent \u00e0 l’esprit. Le c\u00e8dre que vous voyez ci-haut se trouve sur le terrain de l’Auberge l’Interval pr\u00e8s de St-Donat dans un domaine forestier qui est une \u00e9rabli\u00e8re \u00e0 bouleau jaune. Des individus si grands sont rares; cet arbre a au moins 150 ans.<\/p>\n

Dans les sols humides et ensoleill\u00e9s, les c\u00e8dres poussent vite et haut. Ils s’adaptent \u00e9galement au sols secs en poussant moins vite et moins haut. En fait, le plus vieil arbre du Qu\u00e9bec est un c\u00e8dre qui pousse sur une \u00eele du lac Duparquet en Abitibi, sur le roches d’une falaise: l’arbre d’au moins 920 ans ne mesure que deux m\u00e8tres et demi mais il est d’un bois si dense que les castors ne s’y int\u00e9ressent point!<\/p>\n

Un dernier mot au sujet de notre arborvitae: ce n’est pas un c\u00e8dre. Les vrais c\u00e8dres, comme le c\u00e8dre du Liban qui se trouve sur le drapeau de ce pays, viennent d’Asie. Notre c\u00e8dre <\/em>en fait, est un thuya, comme le gen\u00e9vrier qu’on voit beaucoup \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al avec ses feuilles bleu-verts squamiformes — comme le thuya — compos\u00e9es d’\u00e9cailles, et son c\u00f4ne qui ressemble \u00e0 une baie bleue. Tous les deux, le thuya et le gen\u00e9vrier, sont de la famille des Cupressac\u00e9es (Cypress). Je reviendrai sur ce sujet plus tard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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