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ARBORICULTURE 



riic Arapahoe Glaciers, Colorado. 



l>uring the summer of 189 — , in order 

 to study tlic couil'erous forests of Colo- 

 rado, I engaged with the survey of the 

 Colorado Northwestern Railway, run- 

 ning a line from Boulder to El Dora. 

 T'pon one occasion I climbed to the sum- 

 mit of Blount Baldy (not all of them, for 

 Baldy is a legion in numbers), at times 

 clambering over snow forty feet in depth. 

 From this summit 1 liiid a magnificent 

 view of the Ara])ahoe peaks, which were 

 hut a very short distance away. 



By courtesy of J. Raymond Brackett, 

 professor of comparative literature of 

 the University of Colorado, we are per- 



mitted to use his photograph of the gla- 

 ciers on the Arapahoe Mountain. 



The Colorado University at Boulder, 

 located, as it is, at the base of America's 

 grandest mountains, is exceptionally well 

 situated for the study of forests and 

 })lant life of both mountain and plain 

 regions. 



Boulder is famous for fine strawberries 

 and other fniils: trees in great variety 

 grow at this elevation under irrigation, 

 (^ne may eat strawberries in the morning 

 and by noon be in the region of clouds 

 ten thousand feet high, among the spruce 

 at the limit of plant growth, among per- 

 petual snow banks. 



