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of all the votes went to the Rocky Mountain 

 columbine. When it came to selecting a tree, 

 every vote was cast for the silver spruce. 



Edwinia, with its attractive waxy white flowers, 

 and potentilla, with bloom of gold, are shrubs 

 which lend a charm to much of the mountain- 

 section. Black birch and alder trim many of the 

 streams, and the mountain maple is thinly scat- 

 tered from the foothills to nine thousand feet 

 altitude. Wild roses are frequently found near 

 the maple, and gooseberry bushes fringe many 

 a brook. Huckleberries flourish on the timbered 

 slopes, and kinnikinick gladdens many a grav- 

 elly stretch or slope. 



Between the altitudes of eight thousand and 

 ten thousand feet there are extensive forests of 

 the indomitable lodge-pole pine. This borders 

 even more extensive forests of Engelmann spruce. 

 Lodge-pole touches timber-line in a few places, 

 and Engelmann spruce climbs up to it in every 

 caiion or moist depression. Along with these, at 

 timber-line, are flexilis pine, balsam fir, arctic 

 willow, dwarf black birch, and the restless little 

 aspen. All timber-line trees are dwarfed and most 



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