son Cypress (C. Lawsoniana), Is one of 

 the prettiest trees known for lawns and parks, 

 and very popular. A small grove is indig- 

 enous to the head-waters of the Sacramento 

 River; near Mount Shasta, but the headquar- 

 ters are around Coos Bay, Oregon, giving it 

 the name of Port Orford Cedar. Its lum- 

 ber is in great demand for interior finishing, 

 cabinet work, etc. Distinguished by its grace- 

 ful form, its foliage in flattened, convex 

 sprays, and its numerous little cones the size 

 of a garden pea. 



The other noted Cypress (C. -macrocarpa) is 

 native to Cypress Point, on the Monterey 

 Coast, where the ocean storms flatten and 

 sculpture their dense, dark-green foliage in 

 terraces, or completely prostrate the tree. 

 A favorite tree for making hedge rows or 

 wind-breaks ; cones the largest of the genus, 

 often over an inch long, with prominent bosses 

 or knobs. 



Descending to the lowest, earliest stage of 

 development, we find the Junipers (Junipcrus) 

 with only minute scales for leaves, and for 

 fruit a small, closed berry, with only vestiges 

 of the scales, and juicy with turpentine, the 

 well-known Juniper Berry. One species (/. 

 occidentalism growing up in the High Sierra 

 becomes quite a large, round-headed tree of 

 great age. Another (/. Calif ornica} is a de- 

 graded, unnecessarily sprawling shrub, found 

 on the plains and slopes of southern Califor- 

 nia. 



What a world of arboreal 'development be- 

 tween this tardy Juniper and the perfected, 

 colossal, royal Sugar Pine, described, the king 

 of the Pine Tree clan ! 



(56) 



