| The leaves are little evergreen scales, which overlap, and being closely pressed to the branchlet, completely clothe and hide it. |
| The cones are very small, about a half inch in length, growing singly from the lower side of the branchlet. |
| Overlap one branchlet or bundle over the cut ends of the last to hide them and the wire. |
| The perfect multinodal branchlet is formed in the winter-bud and the spring-shoot is multinodal. |
| The small flower clusters are borne in the centre of the branchlets, or on one side of the branchlet. |
| The little, tender balls which you found near the young bud at the end of the branchlet is a new cone just started this year. |
