I'hoto by A. H. Barnes 
A SPECIMEN OF ROSE-COLORED HEATHER ON MOUNT RAINIER (SEE PAGE 607) 
kind. From the dense forests of the val- 
leys and on the lower slopes, where trees 
grow to a height of over 300 feet, some 
with a diameter of 12 feet, the forester 
can trace the diminution of growth as 
the ascent is made to the scrubby brush- 
like trees at timber-line, struggling", as it 
were, for their existence. 
To a landscape gardener the park is 
the best natural teacher. The promiscu- 
ous style in which nature has planted 
the shrubbery is ever a wonder. \Miere 
plant growth seems impossible, one finds 
the most thrifty flowers adorning a rock 
wall, on top of which grow clumps of 
alpine fir, hemlock, and Alaska cedar, 
dwarfed and miniatured by high altitude 
and lack of substance. Where seemingly 
no vegetation can live, they have been for 
generations rooted into the fissures of 
the high cliffs, eking out an existence on 
but a few bushels of soil. 
The unvisited portions of the Rainier 
Park without doubt contain, yet unseen. 
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