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ornamented with tall ferns and rubus vines, and 

 cast into hillocks by the bulging, moss-covered 

 roots of the trees, matches it well. 



Passing from beneath the heavy shadows of 

 the woods, almost anywhere one steps into lovely 

 gardens of lilies, orchids, heathworts, and wild 

 roses. Along the lower slopes, especially in Ore- 

 gon, where the woods are less dense, there are 

 miles of rhododendron, making glorious masses 

 of purple in the spring, while all about the 

 streams and the lakes and the beaver meadows 

 there is a rich tangle of hazel, plum, cherry, 

 crab-apple, cornel, gaultheria, and rubus, with 

 myriads of flowers and abundance of other more 

 delicate bloomers, such as erythronium, brodisea, 

 fritillaria, calochortus, Clintonia, and the lovely 

 hider of the north, Calypso. Beside all these 

 bloomers there are wonderful ferneries about the 

 many misty waterfalls, some of the fronds ten 

 feet high, others the most delicate of their tribe, 

 the maidenhair fringing the rocks within reach of 

 the lightest dust of the spray, while the shading 

 trees on the cliffs above them, leaning over, look 

 like eager listeners anxious to catch every tone 

 of the restless waters. In the autumn berries of 

 every color and flavor abound, enough for birds, 

 bears, and everybody, particularly about the 

 stream-sides and meadows where sunshine reaches 

 the ground : huckleberries, red, blue, and black, 

 some growing close to the ground others on 



