MO UNTAIN TREES 



the desert is upon them. Here the fre- 

 quenter of the arid hills loves to dwell, 

 his only visitants being the little wafts 

 of stray, whispering breezes, or now 

 and then a sweet-voiced Desert Spar- 

 row, or playful lizard. Here in the 

 silence and solitude he hears 



In the still, sad music of the wild 

 The chords that soothe his heart. 



thus saving its life at that time, and hence it has been 

 called the 'Osawatamie pine tree.' Then on August 15, 

 1893, Dr. Ried found it perishing again from the same 

 causes; Mrs. Reid gathered loose dirt and mulch from 

 between rocks and dragged it on an old barley sack 

 which she had found, to the roots of the tree, while the 

 Doctor laid up a wall of rocks on the lower side to 

 hold the dirt in place; and so its life was saved again. 

 They also broke off some of its dead branches to give 

 the tree a better chance." History of Pasadena Ried. 

 The yellowish, brush-like mistletoe growing on the 

 one-leaf pine is the Arceuthobium divarication ENGELM. 



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