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floor of the valley is like one great park dotted 

 here and there with giant oaks, each one of a dif- 

 ferent form; here, perhaps, a hundred in a clus- 

 ter, there a half dozen, artistically grouped as if 

 by a landscape gardener. These are mostly 

 western white oak {Quercus lobata) though in 

 some parts of the valley there are numerous 

 patches of the black oak (Q. calif ornica) and 

 along the streams the live oak (Q. WisUzenii), 



In the distant hills north and east are a great 

 variety of evergreen and deciduous trees and 

 shrubs among the most common of which are the 

 following conifers: the digger pine, sugar pine, 

 the yellow pine, the knob-cone pine, coast red- 

 wood, incense cedar, MacNab cypress, Goven's 

 cypress, and nutmeg tree. 



Some of the other evergreen and deciduous 

 trees growing in this immediate vicinity are: 

 Oregon maple, box elder, Oregon ash, Califor- 

 nia buckeye, white alder, red alder, tanbark oak, 

 white oak. Pacific post oak, black oak, blue 

 oak, maul oak, mountain live oak, tree elder, 

 bush elder, cottonwood, bayberry, madrona, 

 golden chestnut, coast manzanita, and common 

 manzanita. 



There are ornamental shrubs in profusion; 

 among others, the rhododendron, azalea, June- 

 berry, Judas tree, hawthorns, western sweet- 



