In the Sierra 



vum). The tallest are from seven to eight 

 feet high with magnificent racemes of ten 

 to twenty or more small orange-colored 

 flowers; they stand out free in open ground, 

 with just enough grass and other compan- 

 ion plants about them to fringe their feet, 

 and show them off to best advantage. This 

 is a grand addition to my lily acquaintances, 

 a true mountaineer, reaching prime vigor 

 and beauty at a height of seven thousand 

 feet or thereabouts. It varies, I find, very 

 much in size even in the same meadow, not 

 only with the soil, but with age. I saw a 

 specimen that had only one flower, and an- 

 other within a stone's throw had twenty- 

 five. And to think that the sheep should be 

 allowed in these lily meadows ! after how 

 many centuries of Nature's care planting 

 and watering them, tucking the bulbs in 

 snugly below winter frost, shading the ten- 

 der shoots with clouds drawn above them 

 like curtains, pouring refreshing rain, mak- 

 ing them perfect in beauty, and keeping 



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