FOEEST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



leaf and bright berry. In the dry and 

 sunny places we find the wild rose, the 

 trailing blackberry, with its rich color 

 traceries on the autumn leaves, and the 

 no less brilliant leaves of the wild straw- 

 berries underfoot. We come upon the 

 creeping wintergreen and the local 

 " flowering moss." The fragrant "trail- 

 ing arbutus," here as elsewhere, is 

 an earnest of the generous returning 

 spring. Along the creeks and brooks 

 are masses of honeysuckles, alder 

 bushes, and sweet magnolias. 



The coniferous forests of the Rocky 

 Mountain region are either too dry or 

 too elevated to promote a luxuriant 

 undergrowth; but we find it in the 

 humid coast region of Oregon and 

 Washington, within the forests of fir, 

 pine, and spruce. In the deciduous 

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