FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



them in dense groves, where the day is 

 a continuous twilight and the trees 

 surpass in their combined massiveness 

 even the red firs of Oregon. At other 

 times we shall find them mingling in 

 more open forest with lowland firs and 

 hemlocks, or, in their northern range, 

 with the splendid Port Orford cedar. 

 The light enters these more open for- 

 ests and calls forth much beautiful 

 young growth and shrubbery: the 

 rhododendrons of California, with large 

 and showy purplish blossoms and ever- 

 green leaves; western dogwoods, that 

 might at first glance be mistaken for 

 the eastern species; barberries and 

 familiar hazels; and ferns and violets. 

 The reader must not infer, of course, 

 that such scenes are necessarily of 

 common occurrence in the forest; but 

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