JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XXIV November, 1923 No. 287 
BOTANICAL FEATURES OF MOUNTAIN LAKE, 
VIRGINIA 
A brief vacation in July, 1923, was > Spent t by the writer among 
trees which grew in the valley years ago may still be seen standing 
in its clear and quiet depths. 
t is customary among the uninformed to account for the 
he will usually = empl w ete supply close ae hand w des 
ae 
s less near the mountain tops, ihe summers shorter, the rain 
oe snow more frequent, humus abundant, and there are often 
deep gorges where the winter's ice will linger far into the sumn-.er. 
