Trees that every child should know : easy tree studies for all seasons of the year . have few scales, compared with the conesof the needle-leaved evergreens. Each year acrop is borne, with two seeds under each of us see the little red cone flowers in May,nor the pellets of yellow on other twigs, whichare the pollen flowers. We watch the hedgeclipper at work, trimming the thick green frondsthat make a solid wall of green. Look carefullyhereafter for the flowers and the ripe cones, inthe proper season for each. The white cedar grows, a fine, conical ever-green tree, in the coast states
Trees that every child should know : easy tree studies for all seasons of the year . have few scales, compared with the conesof the needle-leaved evergreens. Each year acrop is borne, with two seeds under each of us see the little red cone flowers in May,nor the pellets of yellow on other twigs, whichare the pollen flowers. We watch the hedgeclipper at work, trimming the thick green frondsthat make a solid wall of green. Look carefullyhereafter for the flowers and the ripe cones, inthe proper season for each. The white cedar grows, a fine, conical ever-green tree, in the coast states, from Maine toMississippi. It loves best the deep swamps, butgrows well in wet, sandy soil farther we see again the flat spray of minute, is® .1 K? - I-; 4 r .5^* r: ?wA 1 % J ^ i||a%;.; ^ 1 ^fl K- ,.•»• •t^*SK ?S p •-1 j ?. 41 ,1 7 i fc.;: i 1 \ i - • -?I. I ? ? 1 I* ?.- s. % ? :.????... ^p •<5 ? . .*# This big tree, The Grizzly Giant, is over three hundred feethigh. It is a sequoia, one of the cone-bearing evergreens. SCALY-LEAVED EVERGREENS Upper: two branches from the same red cedar treeLower: flat sprays of arbor vita; The Cedars, White and Red 129 pointed, and keeled leaves, but the cones are dif-ferent. These are pale grey, and globular; thefew scales are thick and horny, and curiouslysculptured, each with a beak projecting from thecentre. The foliage mass is a peculiar blue-green, andthe bark, thin, and rusty red, parts into stringsand shreds. Lumbermen call this tree a cedar. So theydo the arbor vitae. The wood of each is pale-coloured, and notable for its durability whenexposed to weather and water. Fence posts ofwhite cedar, and cedar pails, shingles, and thelike, have a great reputation for durability. The peculiarity of a red cedar is its of a cone, a blue, juicy, sweet berry fol-lows the blossoming of this tree. The foliage,too, is erratic. Minute leaves of the scale form,discovered in the other cedars, are found h
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