Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
The leaves of this cedar are much like spruce-needles, 
but clustered as in the larch, and the cones are globu- 
lar. Besides the one in the ‘‘ Ramble,’’ near the boat- 
house, is a fine specimen about a hundred feet or more 
east of the ‘‘ Bethesda Fountain,’’ and another on the 
east slope of the Bolivar eminence, on the west side. 
YELLOw-woop.—A native tree that is but little 
known, rare even in its habitat, which is in the South- 
ern States, and not yet widely cultivated, is the yellow- 
wood. Its greatest altitude is only fifty feet, but it is 
usually of much lower growth, and its habit of dividing 
the trunk quite close to the ground gives it a more 
shrubby appearance. Its lithe branches, weighted with 
long pinnate leaves of from seven to eleven leaflets, 
spread and droop most gracefully, and its finely dissected 
foliage makes it desirable for picturesque ornament 
rather than for substantial shade. Late in June long 
loose clusters of white blossoms hang from the ends of 
the branches, and the leaflets have a way, oftentimes, 
of faling one by one and leaving the stem bare, whose 
swollen base, when detached, is found to be a hollow 
cup enclosing the next year’s bud. 
Witp YELLOw PLuM.—One looks so eagerly for 
bloom in spring that he will give to the wild plum a 
more cordial welcome in early May than a few weeks 
later. It has just one talent; but it took warning and 
put it out at moderate usury, so that it was not sum- 
marily deprived of it, and one is likely to run across its 
small but pretty clusters of white flowers in any moist 
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