FOREST ADORNMENT 



makes depends largely upon the dis- 

 tance at which it is viewed. If we 

 stand in the midst of a dense patch of 

 it we see of how many elements it is 

 composed; how the shi'ubs of different 

 size, shape, and character crowd each 

 other into a tangle of branches, some 

 not reaching above the waist, others 

 closing in overhead. The ceano- 

 thus, with its dull, dark-green foliage 

 and bunches of small white flowers, 

 which appear in June, stands beside 

 the stout- stemmed, knotty, twisted 

 manzanita, with its strikingly reddish- 

 brown bark and sticky, orbicular, olive- 

 colored leaves. Among smaller shrubs 

 we find the aromatic sage brush, of a 

 light-gray, soft appearance, and the 

 richer, darker, small-leaved grease- 

 wood, or chemisal, as it is more com- 

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