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. macro car pa) 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 
winfl-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 ( Juniperus ) 
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 (/. 
occidentalis ) growing up in the High Sierra 
becomes quite a large, round-headed tree of 
great age. Another (/. Californica) 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! 
