FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
leaf and bright berry. In the dry and 
sunny places we find the wild rose, the 
trailing blackberry, with its rich color 
traceries on the autumn leaves, and the 
no less brilliant leaves of the wild straw- 
berries underfoot. "We come upon the 
creeping wintergreen and the local 
“flowering moss.” 
The fragrant “trail- 
ing arbutus,” here as elsewhere, is 
an earnest of the generous returning 
spring. Along the creeks and brooks 
are masses of honeysuckles, alder 
bushes, and sweet magnolias. 
The coniferous forests of the Rocky 
Mountain region are either too dry or 
too elevated to promote a luxuriant 
undergrowth; but we find it in the 
humid coast region of Oregon and 
Washington, within the forests of fir, 
pine, and spruce. In the deciduous 
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