THE FORESTS OF WASHINGTON 



inch wide and beautiful pink flowers, urn- 

 shaped, that make a fine, rich show. The 

 berries are black when ripe, are extremely 

 abundant, and, with the huckleberries, form 

 an important part of the food of the Indians, 

 who beat them into paste, dry them, and store 

 them away for winter use, to be eaten with 

 their oily fish. The salmon-berry also is very- 

 plentiful, growing in dense prickly tangles. 

 The flowers are as large as wild roses and of 

 the same color, and the berries measure nearly 

 an inch in diameter. Besides these there are 

 gooseberries, currants, raspberries, blackber- 

 ries, and, in some favored spots, strawberries. 

 The mass of the underbrush of the woods is 

 made up in great part of these berry-bearing 

 bushes, together with white-flowered spiraea 

 twenty feet high, hazel, dogwood, wild rose, 

 honeysuckle, symphoricarpus, etc. But in the 

 depths of the woods, where little sunshine can 

 reach the ground, there is but little under- 

 brush of any kind, only a very light growth 

 of huckleberry and rubus and young maples 

 in most places. The difficulties encountered 

 by the explorer in penetrating the wilderness 

 are presented mostly by the streams and bogs, 

 with their tangled margins, and the fallen 

 timber and thick carpet of moss covering all 

 the ground. 



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