Flowers in Colorado. 



and as varied in color. They all lie comparatively low, 

 partly from the want of bushes and shrubs to climb on, 

 partly because they are too wise to go very far away from 

 their limited water supply in so dry a coun- 

 try ; they must keep close to the ground, or 

 choke. That this is a bit of specific precau- 

 tion on their part, and not a peculiarity of 

 their varieties, is proved by the fact that all 

 along the creeks, in the cotton-wood and 

 willow copses, we find the same vetches 

 growing up boldly many feet into the air, 

 just as they do in Italy, leaping from shrub 

 to shrub, and catching hold on anything 

 which comes to hand. 



By the third week in June, we have added 

 to these brilliant parterres of red, purple, 

 white, and yellow in our streets the superb 

 spikes of the blue pentstemon. This is a 

 flower of which I despair to give any idea to 

 one a stranger to it. The blossoms are shaped 

 like the common foxglove blossom ; they grow 



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