TWO CONIFERS NOT EVERGREEN Two cone-bearing trees have the astonishing habit of letting go their leaves in the fall, and thus setting themselves apart from the ever greens, to which they are otherwise closely re lated. Their cones are like those of pines and spruces. Their leaves are needle-like, and their flowers are the cone flowers like the rest. Al
though they stand bare in winter time, their fruits declare their kinships with the evergreen. Their forms also suggest this kinship, for each is a spire-like shaft, from which short branches stand out horizontally like those of the pointed firs and spruces.