gs CONE-BEARERS. 



ing members of the great family of Cone-bearers. 

 While most trees of this order suffer greatly or die 

 outright upon the application of the knife, the small- 

 leaved cypresses, elaborating the sap through the epi- 

 dermis of the slender twiglets as well as the scaly 

 leaves, are enabled to withstand the attacks of the 

 hedger, and they readily assume any shape desired. 

 So they allow themselves to be set in long hedge- 

 rows, dressed true to a line, or banked in fire screens 

 and wind-breaks, or they are clipped and trained to 

 shapes of arches, towers, summer houses, temples, etc., 

 nothing too elaborate, whether beautiful or grotesque, 

 for these gentle trees to imitate. 



The Junipers 



Are the little economical commoners of this im- 

 portant family. Arising from the midst of miasmatic 

 swamps, thronging on the borders of deserts, or cling- 

 ing to the rocky sides of mountains, with scant foliage 

 they elaborate their thin layers of wood annually to 

 form close-grained, fragrant, tough, long-enduring 

 timber, while the shining berries are packed with 

 sugar or saturated with turpentine. These humble 

 trees and shrubs are thus in many regions the poor 

 man's best friend. 



