FOREST ADORNMENT 
makes depends largely upon the dis- 
tance at which it is viewed. If we 
stand in the midst of a dense patch of 
it we see of how many elements it is 
composed; how the shrubs of different 
size, shape, and character crowd each 
other into a tangle of branches, some 
not reaching above the waist, others 
closing in overhead. The ceano- 
thus, with its dull, dark-green foliage 
and bunches of small white flowers, 
which appear in June, stands beside 
the stout-stemmed, knotty, twisted 
manzanita, with its strikingly reddish- 
brown bark and sticky, orbicular, olive- 
colored leaves. Among smaller shrubs 
we find the aromatic sage brush, of a 
light-gray, soft appearance, and the 
richer, darker, small-leaved grease- 
wood, or chemisal, as it is more com- 
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