WILD GARDENS OF THE YOSEMITE PARK 171 



Inlet and Kodiak. All these, interblending, 

 form one flowery belt — one garden blooming in 

 June, rocking its myriad spires in the hearty 

 weather, bowing and swirling, enjoying clouds 

 and the winds and filling them with balsam ; 

 covering thousands of miles of the wildest moun- 

 tains, clothing the long slopes by the sea, crown- 

 ing bluffs and headlands and innumerable islands, 

 and, fringing the banks of the glaciers, one wild 

 wavering belt of the noblest flowers in the world, 

 worth a lifetime of love work to know it. 



