MOUNTAIN TREES 



in the Tamarack forests results from the 

 heavy wind storms which sweep with 

 such fury through the mountains during 

 the winter months. 



The Murray pine is not, like the 

 Ponderosa, a friendly tree. Its very re- 

 membrance calls to the mind pictures of 

 chilly bleak days spent under cool damp 

 shades. Storm battered often, when 

 found in gorges, rock-wounded, bleed- 

 ing everywhere with resin, and with 

 fallen heroes strewn about in every di- 

 rection they are a type of utter bleak- 

 ness and dejection, especially at even- 

 time after the setting of the sun when 

 the still, lonely coldness of the high alti- 

 tudes has settled upon the mountain. 



The small globular cones are borne in 

 great profusion and their purplish and 

 yellow hues make, when ripe, a most 

 striking effect as that of blossoms. They 

 fall at the end of the second season 

 strewing the ground with a profusion of 

 dainty, prickly burrs which are the de- 

 light of every artist. 



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