498 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
at a distance of a few feet from the ground, to 
its summit—the whole outline of the Tree being 
pyramidal. The leaves, which are evergreen, 
short, and needle-shaped, are borne on the 
boughs in little branched tufts, at intervals 
separating them from each other. 
The yellow, stamen-bearing flowers of the Cedar 
are borne on short catkins. The _pistil-bear- 
ing catkins are yet shorter and rounder, and 
when they have been fructified by the yellow 
pollen from the stamens, they develope into erect, 
large, ovate, and solitary cones (see illustration, 
on this page), which, when full-grown, are almost 
