MODELS FOR TREE DESCRIPTION 49 
The leaves are very small and delicate, and as they ex- 
tend out in two ranks from the thread-like twigs, look 
much like fine ferns. The small linear leaves and the 
spray drop off together in the autumn, asI can find much 
of last year’s foliage on the ground still fastened to the 
twigs. I could not see any flowers, though I looked from 
early in the spring till the middle of the summer; then I 
saw afew of the globular green cones, almost an inch in 
diameter, showing that it had bloomed. Next spring I 
shall begin to look for the blossoms before the leaves 
come out. 
On the ground, about 6 feet from the tree, there are four 
very strange knobs which I did not notice till I stumbled 
over one of them. They seem to grow from the roots, and 
are quite soft and reddish in color. 
No. 3. 
I have found twenty-two Bald Cypresses in Trenton; 
they are all beautiful conical trees, and seem to grow well 
in almost any soil, as I have found some in very wet 
places and some in dry, sandy soil. They look from their 
position as though they had been planted out, and as I 
have found none in the woods around the town, they are 
probably not native in this region. They are from 50 to 
nearly 100 feet tall. I found one 96 feet high. They are 
all of a very symmetrical, conical form,and pointed at the 
top; in no case has the trunk divided into branches, and 
on the old trees the trunk enlarges curiously near the 
ground, the lower portion being very rough with ridges. 
The bark is very thick and rough, and is so soft that a 
pin can readily be pushed through it to the wood. The 
branches are very numerous and small, and are not regu- 
larly arranged in whorls like most of the narrow-leaved 
trees. These branches all slope upward from the trunk, 
the ends having a tendency to bend downward and make 
delicate drooping spray, with very small, linear, entire 
