FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
them in dense groves, where the day is 
a continuous twilight and the trees 
surpass in their combined massiveness 
even the red firs of Oregon. At other 
times we shall find them mingling in 
more open forest with lowland firs and 
hemlocks, or, in their northern range, 
with the splendid Port Orford cedar. 
The light enters these more open for- 
ests and calls forth much beautiful 
young growth and shrubbery: the 
rhododendrons of California, with large 
and showy purplish blossoms and ever- 
green leaves; western dogwoods, that 
might at first glance be mistaken for 
the eastern species; barberries and 
familiar hazels; and ferns and violets. 
The reader must not infer, of course, 
that such scenes are necessarily of 
common occurrence in the forest; but 
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